ripe en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ɹaɪp/ (UK, US)
- (US) audio
Etymology
From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.
Meanings
-
Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:ripe grain
ripe apples
-
Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
ripe cheese
ripe wine
-
(figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
She was a feature of that piety, but even at the ripe stage of acquaintance in which they occasionally arranged to meet at a concert or to go together to an exhibition she was not a feature of anything else.
1895, Henry James, The Altar of the Dead:And so may Place retain us still, And he the much-beloved again, A lord of large experience, train To riper growth the mind and will: […]
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 64:He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth:When you're ripe You'll bleed out of control
2001, “Elite”, performed by Deftones:
- (archaic) Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.
-
Ready for action or effect; prepared.
I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.
1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America:But the time is ripe for changes. There's a growing feeling. That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
1988, Queensrÿche, Revolution Calling:while things were just ripe for a war
1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.
1910, Theodore C. Williams, The Aeneid, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, Book IV Chapter 28:
-
(colloquial) Of a person, ready, willing, eager.
I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air!
1927, Bartlett Cormack, The Racket (play):
-
Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing, ripe cheeks.
1981, Daniel Curzon, Human Warmth & Other Stories, →ISBN, page 18:Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
-
(obsolete) Intoxicated.
Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
-
Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe, however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.
2004, Kenneth F. Warren, Administrative Law in the Political System, →ISBN, page 427:
-
Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits.
2004, Colum McCann, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, →ISBN, page 141:His Majesty [a purple emperor butterfly] has rather peculiar tastes for so elegant a being. You just hang a piece of decidedly ripe meat anywhere near.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rype | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| riper | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| ripest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
ripen · drop-ripe · ripeness · ripely · ripe for the plucking · like a ripe plum · time is ripe · market-ripe · ripe old age · force-ripe · ripe for the picking · overripe · nonripe · ripeish · firstripe · ultraripe · under-ripe · underripe · rare-ripe · rope-ripe
Synonyms
slammed · crapulous · out of sight · bevvied · pickled · stinksome · wastey · fluted · sotted · sozzled · half seas over · gished · lushed · bottled · obliviated · on the ran tan · potted · off one's head · stonkered · three sheets to the wind · feeling no pain · rubbered · ripe · stinking · nappy · juiced · Brahms · frosted · spanceled · insober · olid · wazzed · splashed · munted · hoovered · bedrunken · three sheets in the wind · snookered · blue · scammered · half lit · in liquor · mullered · spiffed · pounded · potshot · in the bag · foul-smelling · ossified · snockered · pie-eyed · schnockered · kisky · MWI · muggy · toasted · sottish · schloshed · arseholed · lubed · tanked · flooey · bad · well-oiled · temulentive · whiff · fap · hooched up · bibulous · in one's cups · gattered · four sheets in the wind · loopy · hooted · maggoted · burlin' · blootered · scuttered · inebriated · ripped · whittled · primed · paralytic · zotzed · consummate · groggified · rolling · honkers · sodden · half polluted · zooted · nimptopsical · raddled · temulent · skunked · fuzzy-minded · cut · in one's altitudes · maggot · liquored up · mabok · destroyed · fresh · puggled · lashed · ploughed · stinko · blind drunk · cup-shot · wrecked · reeky · plastered · bungfu · screwed · stoned · funky · hammered · spannered · niffy · mad with it · parlatic · hosed · a sheet in the wind · clobbered · squiffed · groggy · tuned · sewed up · shicker · have drink taken · Oliver · stewed · a sheet in the wind's eye · graveolent · tight as a tick · plowed · boozy · woozy · tippled · ripe · snozzled · bingoed · tired and emotional · bosky · overrefreshed · lubed up · trashed · Adrian Quist · pixilated · larruped · have the sun in one's eyes · out of one's box · overcome · wellied · befuddled · hog-whimpering · souped-up · high as a kite · elephant's · floored · high as a Georgia pine · putredinous · besotted · jarred · unaromatic · messed up · disguised · liquory · obfuscated · all mops and brooms · flush · tilted · beliquored · cup-shotten · slizzard · jaked · cocked · sozzly · gesuip · ebriated · polluted · ratfaced · pongy · out of one's head · legless · top-heavy · crocked · blind · unfragrant · twatfaced · shitty · fuzzy-headed · inebriate · stoated · nonaromatic · out of one's face · bollocksed · langers · Oliver Twist · binned · flushed · inter pocula · malodorous · strut · noisome · buckish · adrip · spongy · shellacked · lash · how came you so · worse for liquor · ebriose · top-heavy with drink · oiled · tanked up · oiled up · insobrietous · zonked · stank · blottoed · flustered · corned · fried · gee-eyed · blasted · stotious · shickered · budgy · muzzy · worse for wear · wet · high · mortal · on the nose · cunted · lamped · maudlin · blitzed · smashed · sloshed · fluthered · mortalled · fou · whiffy · kaylied · fershnickered · mawkish · stinking · stinky · fetid · out of it · cacodorous · glorious · newted · besotten · wazzocked · hazed · bibacious · mashed · Mozart and Liszt · langered · loaded · twisted · razzled · dead drunk · loose · steamboats · ginned · kettled · monged · elephant's trunk · lit · lubricated · aled up · fuddled · soshed · canned · faced · blocked · toping · sloppy drunk · sauced up · off one's box · bungalowed · zorched · tipsy · sprung · looped · stenchy · gassed · withered · slarmied · blewed · half cut · overtaken · throwed · drunked up · wobbly · zoned · elevated · full · nonfragrant · in the drink · off one's tits · inebrious · bladdered · drunk as a piper · smelly · drunken · muddled · impaired · tight · drunk · cockeyed · shedded · fuckfaced · lathered · juiced up · swacked · soused · bombed · Brahms and Liszt · reeking · sauced · fuckered up · snuffy · quisby · medicated · soaken
Translations (161)
lb zeideg (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ceb hinog (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · eo matura (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ota اولغون (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · pt maduro (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · nv neestʼą́ (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ru зре́лый (having attained its full development; mature) · as পকা (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · pt maturo (having attained its full development; mature) · grc δρυπεπής (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fi kypsä (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · ro matur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ky жетилген (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · km ទុំ (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ta முற்றிய (maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors) · gv appee (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · jv mateng (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · es jecho (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · bg зрял (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · hy հասուն (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ka მწიფე (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · an maduro (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · nb skjær (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ta கனிந்த (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · et küps (having attained its full development; mature) · ro copt (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ru вы́держанный (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · lmo madur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ca madur (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · he בשל (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fi kypsä (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · vi chín (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · mba nahinog (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · zza resayi (having attained its full development; mature) · sk zrelý (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ru спе́лый (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · dlm matoir (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · az yetişmiş (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · oc madur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fr mûre (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · pdt riep (having attained its full development; mature) · lv nobriedis (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · qu puqusqa (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · myv кенерезь (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · zza bıyaye (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fr accomplie (having attained its full development; mature) · ru зре́лый (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fr accompli (having attained its full development; mature) · ta பழுத்த (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · pt maduro (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · it maturo (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · de reif (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · pt maduro (having attained its full development; mature) · az dəymiş (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ar ناضِج (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · te పండు (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fa رسیده (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fi kypsä (having attained its full development; mature) · fi valmistautunut (ready for action or effect; prepared) · lv gatavs (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · el ώριμος (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · bg зрял (having attained its full development; mature) · rup coptu (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · yi צײַטיק (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · it matura (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · bg готов (ready for action or effect; prepared) · sh зре̏о (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · grc πέπειρος (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · gl preparado (ready for action or effect; prepared) · ta முதிர்ந்த (maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors) · id matang (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · wa meur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · mdf кенерьф (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · zza resaye (diq) (having attained its full development; mature) · ca preparat (ready for action or effect; prepared) · fi tuleentunut (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ta கனிந்த (having attained its full development; mature) · gu પાકું (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · sc cottu (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ary طايب (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fr mûre (ready for action or effect; prepared) · msk inog (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · tet tasak (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · cs zralý (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · hy հասած (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · hrx zeidich (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ta பழுத்த (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · sv mogen (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · et valmis (ready for action or effect; prepared) · fi tuoksahtava (having a disagreeable odor) · ca madur (having attained its full development; mature) · cmn 熟 (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · nl rijp (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ia matur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fr mûre (maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors) · es maduro (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · gl listo (ready for action or effect; prepared) · br darev (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fur madûr (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · br azv (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · cdo 熟 (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · mi tāngoungou (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fi pahanhajuinen (having a disagreeable odor) · ta சரியானது (ready for action or effect; prepared) · fi valmis (ready for action or effect; prepared) · ca madur (maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors) · hu érett (having attained its full development; mature) · nb moden (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · cy aeddfed (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fr mûr (ready for action or effect; prepared) · eu zori (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · mi tāngōngō (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · la mātūrus (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · id masak (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · es madurado (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · fr mûr (maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors) · rm madir (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · de gereift (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · la mītis (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · et küps (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · th สุก (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · wa maweur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · pl dojrzały (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ms masak (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · nrf meux (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · et küps (maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors) · lv nogatavojies (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · mt misjur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fr mûr (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · mi ngaere (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · hu érett (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fi valmis (having attained its full development; mature) · it maturato (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · rup mãturu (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · dlg буспут (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · zza resaye (diq) (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · ca madur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · it pronto (ready for action or effect; prepared) · pms madur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · sl zrel (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · kn ಪಕವ (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ta பழுத்த (having attained its full development; mature) · cmn 成熟 (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ne पाकेको (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · gu પાકેલું (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · an matur (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ky бышкан (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · pdt riep (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · de ausgereift (having attained its full development; mature) · et küps (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · alt бышкан (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · yue 熟 (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · fi täyteläinen (like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness) · mi pakari (having attained its full development; mature) · it maturo (having attained its full development; mature) · fi kypsä (maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors) · ar حاصِد (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ota اولغون (advanced to the state of fitness for use) · sh zrȅo (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · ja 熟した (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds) · tr olgun (ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds)