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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

... Acanthus was no exception. When Brasidas with his little army appeared before the walls the people at first refused him admission. But it was just before the vintage, and their grapes were hanging in ripe clusters, exposed to the hand of the spoiler; and so, to save their vineyards from ravage, they were at last induced to give him ...

— Stories From Thucydides • H. L. Havell

... distinction of complexion, hair, beard, dress, age, or sex, has, in their imagination, arrived from a certain mysterious city lost in the midst of fogs, where the inhabitants have heard of the sun only from tradition, where the orange and the pine-apple are unknown except by name, where there is no ripe fruit but baked apples, and which is ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various

... all their fellow-citizens by the nominating committee of the Anti-Approved-Sublimated-Politico-Tangents, as the real gentleman, a ripe scholar, [Footnote: I afterwards found this was a common phrase in Leaplow, being uniformly applied to every monikin who wore spectacles.] an enlightened politician, and ...

— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper

... as in some way related to the business that was to be done within it. The "undissipated and unwearied application" which he devoted to everything that he undertook was now employed in exasperating the country. The time was not yet ripe for it to be employed ...

— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) • Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy

... outside the Island. They are passionately devoted to each other, but as a rule look coldly upon the stranger. Swarthy Spanish sailors put in sometimes, and fair-skinned, black-eyed Greeks, and broad-shouldered Norwegians, all as ripe for love as any other sailor, but that they should carry away an Island girl to their outlandish places over sea is a thing almost unheard of. The Island girls are courted by their own blue-jerseyed fisher-lads—and what a place for love-making, with the ravines and ...

— An Isle in the Water • Katharine Tynan

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