adjective
- Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.
- usage: "ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines"
- synonyms: mature
- Fully prepared or eager.
- usage: "the colonists were ripe for revolution"
- Most suitable or right for a particular purpose.
- usage: "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes"
- At the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge.
- usage: "a ripe mind"
- Far along in time.
- usage: "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"
- synonyms: advanced
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