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Ripe

adjective

(compar. riper; superl. ripest)

Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used. Synonym: mature. "Full-bodied mature wines"

Fully prepared or eager.

Most suitable or right for a particular purpose. Synonyms: good, right. "The right time to act" , "The time is ripe for great sociological changes"

At the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge.

Far along in time. Synonym: advanced. "Advanced in years" , "A ripe old age" , "The ripe age of 90"

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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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