Ripe - definition, pronunciation, transcription
adjective
the ripe age of 90
Extra examples
The apples are nearly ripe.
...the clothes of the field hands were sweaty and ripe after a hard day's work...
The society is ripe for change.
The mob were ripe for a tumult.
Time is ripe for...
Those tomatoes aren't ripe yet.
We were pretty ripe after a week of walking.
She died at the ripe old age of 90.
The fruit yields to gentle pressure when it's ripe.
Gently squeeze the fruit to see if it's ripe.
...the lone ripe apple in the entire bag...
...the downy surface of a ripe peach...
...a pliant branch bent low with the weight of ripe fruit...
...the Bolsheviks believed that Russia's discontented proletariat made that nation ripe for revolution...
...my father attributes his ripe old age to temperance in all things, especially eating and drinking...
Word forms
comparative: riper
superlative: ripest
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