ripe

Plural: ripes

Adjective

• Fully developed and ready for use or consumption.
• fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
  • "ripe peaches"

Adjective Satellite

• fully prepared or eager
  • "the colonists were ripe for revolution"
• most suitable or right for a particular purpose
  • "the time is ripe for great sociological changes"
• at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
  • "a ripe mind"
• far along in time
  • "a ripe old age"
  • "the ripe age of 90"

Adj

• Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
• Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
• Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
• Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge. (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
• Ready for action or effect; prepared.
• Ready, willing, eager.
• Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
• Intoxicated.
• Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
• Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
• Rife

Noun

• A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
• The bank of a river.

Verb

Verb Forms: riped, riping, ripes

• To cleanse or purify, often by rubbing or wiping.
• To ripen or mature
• To search; to rummage.

Examples

• He hoped to "RIPE" the slate clean in the next Words With Friends round.
• ripe apples
• ripe cheese
• ripe grain
• ripe wine
• The board was "RIPE" for a bingo, if only he had the right letters.

Synonyms

advanced, good, mature, right, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, bad, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, buckish, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', cacodorous, canned, clobbered, cocked, cockeyed, consummate, corned, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, fetid, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, foul-smelling, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, funky, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, graveolent, groggified, groggy, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, malodorous, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, newted, niffy, nimptopsical, noisome, nonaromatic, nonfragrant, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, olid, on the nose, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, pongy, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, putredinous, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, reeking, reeky, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, smelly, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, stank, steamboats, stenchy, stewed, stinking, stinko, stinksome, stinky, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, unaromatic, unfragrant, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whiff, whiffy, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Antonyms

green, unripe

Related Words

rip, riparian, RIPELY

Anagrams of ripe