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- Dictionaryripe/rīp/
adjective
- 1. (of fruit or grain) developed to the point of readiness for harvesting and eating. Similar Opposite
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Ripe is an adjective that means fully grown and developed, mature, or ready. It can also describe something that is suitable, appropriate, or smelly. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases of ripe.
Ripe means fully developed and ready to be collected or eaten, especially of fruit or crops. It can also describe cheese, smell, or language that is old-fashioned or rude.
Ripe, mature, mellow refer to that which is no longer in an incomplete stage of development. Ripe implies completed growth beyond which the processes of decay begin: a ripe banana. Mature means fully grown and developed as used of living organisms: a mature animal; a mature tree.
Ripe means ready. Ripe can also describe something that is not only ready to happen but well-suited for whatever is happening. A company can expect profits if the market is ripe for its product. When a ballpark has a short field, batters will say that the field is ripe for home runs.
Ripe means fully developed and ready to be eaten, especially of fruit or crops. It can also describe cheese, smell, or language that is old-fashioned or rude. See how to use ripe in sentences and idioms.
ripe (for something) ready or suitable for something to happen. This land is ripe for development. The conditions were ripe for social change. Reforms were promised when the time was ripe.
Learn the meaning of ripe as an adjective for fruit, grain, situation, age, etc. See synonyms, pronunciation, examples and word frequency of ripe.
