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adjective

Ripe adj. (compar. riper; superl. ripest)

Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain. "So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap."

Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.

Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate. "Ripe courage." "He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one."

Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; said of sores, tumors, etc.

Ready for action or effect; prepared. "While things were just ripe for a war." "I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies."

Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness. "Those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip."

Intoxicated. (Obs.) "Reeling ripe."

Synonyms: Mature; complete; finished. See Mature.

noun

Ripe n. The bank of a river. (Obs.)

verb

Ripe v. t. To mature; to ripen. (Obs.)

Ripe v. i. To ripen; to grow ripe. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Ripe'

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"Ripe" Quotes from Famous Books

... not to be misunderstood by our readers. In writing this paper, we do not mean to urge the reintroduction of Cannibalism among us at once. The public mind may not yet be ripe for it; but we desire to assist in placing the subject in its proper light, and in showing that an enlightened impartiality can find very much in defence of the Fijians,—more, indeed, than the Rev. Mr. Froude has been able to accumulate in favor of his wife-devouring hero,—or than ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various

... window. "I am in the next block, as they say in America. When you are ready I shall take you to the dining car. Come out on the platform. The corridors are simply impassable. And here are baskets of peaches, and ripe pears, and all manner of pleasant fruits. Yes, try the corridor to the right, and charge resolutely. If you inflict the maximum injury on others, you seldom ...

— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

... have anything to do with this opera, although its principal part suited my niece's voice admirably, even in her father's judgment. But now that they knew of my feud with the director, and of my voluntary loss of influence, and finally of my evident disgrace, they thought the opportunity ripe for compelling me to conduct this tiresome work myself, as it happened ...

— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... Kiddie, "we're already beginnin' ter be self-supportin'. Fish, meat, honey—there wasn't any occasion t' bring a butcher's shop along with us. We c'd even make our own bread at a pinch. I'm plannin' ter make a fruit pudding. Thar's a bush 'most breakin' down with its weight of ripe and juicy thimbleberries, back of the old cedar tree. ...

— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton

... circumstances of which we are well acquainted, do really admit of being ascertained; and that the other branches of human knowledge, which this undertaking presupposes, are so far advanced that the time is ripe for its commencement. Such is the object of the ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

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