[ UK /ɹˈa‍ɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪp/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. far along in time
    a ripe old age
    a man of advanced age
    advanced in years
    the ripe age of 90
    a ripe old age
  2. fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
    ripe peaches
    full-bodied mature wines
  3. most suitable or right for a particular purpose
    the right time to act
    a good time to plant tomatoes
    the time is ripe for great sociological changes
  4. fully prepared or eager
    the colonists were ripe for revolution
  5. at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
    a ripe mind
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How To Use ripe In A Sentence

  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
  • One man's ‘most respected occult books around’ are another man's old hat ripe for a kicking.
  • So again if you're unfamiliar with this yarn and needle arrangement, start by knitting stripes in full needle rib.
  • Perhaps the tomatoes were underripe to start with. Times, Sunday Times
  • San Francisco's Magierek likes to wear short unitards, turtlenecks, stripes, and prints.
  • Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
  • Denim is identified as an "American cotton textile where the diagonal warp is a striped hickory cloth that was once associated with railroadmen's overalls, in which blue or black contrasting undyed white threads form the woven pattern. My God George Will is a bigger fashion snob than me! - dfi
  • In 1672, when Mars was in the vicinity of the three Psi stars of Aquarius, the time was ripe for obtaining the first reliable parallax of Mars.
  • This is a well-made wine that delivers sweet red and black fruits harmoniously integrated with ripe tannins and soft acidity.
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