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ripe   (TTS Sound)

The adj ripe has 5 senses

• ripe, mature -- (fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines")


• ripe -- (fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for revolution")


• good, right, ripe -- (most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes")


• ripe -- (at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; "a ripe mind")


• advanced, ripe -- (far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90")