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Ripe   /raɪp/   Listen
adjective
Ripe  adj.  (compar. riper; superl. ripest)  
1.
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."
2.
Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
3.
Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate. "Ripe courage." "He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one."
4.
Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; said of sores, tumors, etc.
5.
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."
6.
Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness. "Those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip."
7.
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.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Ripe" Quotes from Famous Books



... make haste slowly, Than to antedate your day; The farmer waits for the sunshine, To transmute the grass to hay. When the fields are ripe for harvest Fear neither the heat or rain, But thrust in your sharpened sickle, ...
— Gleams of Sunshine - Optimistic Poems • Joseph Horatio Chant
... air from the south passed lazily along, sweeping the ground, one of those enervating, lifeless winds that blow upon the senses and fan the breath of desire into a flame. With no knowledge whence it came, Germinie felt over her whole body a sensation like the tickling of the down on a ripe peach against ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
... theory she looked a ripe woman, and this very Walter made her more and more womanly. Whenever Walter was near she had new timidity, new blushes, fewer gushes, less impetuosity, more reserve. Sweet innocent! She was set by Nature to catch the man ...
— A Perilous Secret • Charles Reade
... that taste unpleasant at first," Charley said. "You'll find that little tree scattered all over Florida where the soil is at all rich. It is called pawpaw by the natives, who regard it highly for the sake of its one peculiar virtue. A few drops of the juice of its ripe fruit spread over a tough Florida steak will in a few minutes, make it as tender as veal. The same results can be attained by wrapping the steak in the leaves and letting it lay a slightly longer time. The best of it is that meat treated in this manner is not injured in the slightest. ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... whenever we anchored we met a crowd of merchants and notables and customers, and we took to buying and selling and bartering. At last Destiny brought us to an island, fair and verdant, in trees abundant, with yellow-ripe fruits luxuriant, and flowers fragrant and birds warbling soft descant; and streams crystalline and radiant; but no sign of man showed to the descrier, no, not a blower of the fire.[FN20] The captain made fast ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton


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