Main entry: ripe, mature
Definition: fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
Usage: ripe peaches; full-bodied mature wines
Antonyms: immature, green, unripe, unripened
Definition: not fully developed or mature; not ripe
Definition: young people collectively
Main entry: ripe
Definition: fully prepared or eager
Usage: the colonists were ripe for revolution
Antonyms: unready
Definition: not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond
Main entry: ripe
Definition: at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
Usage: a ripe mind
Antonyms: immature
Definition: not yet mature
Antonyms: immature
Definition: characteristic of a lack of maturity
Main entry: advanced, ripe
Definition: far along in time
Usage: a man of advanced age; advanced in years; a ripe old age; the ripe age of 90
Antonyms: middle
Definition: between an earlier and a later period of time
Antonyms: early
Definition: at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
Antonyms: early
Definition: being or occurring at an early stage of development
Antonyms: middle
Definition: of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
Antonyms: early
Definition: of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
Antonyms: too soon, ahead of time, early
Definition: before the usual time or the time expected
Main entry: good, right, ripe
Definition: 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
Antonyms: inopportune
Definition: not opportune