ripe

Meanings

Adjective

• 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
• Ready for action or effect; prepared.
• 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.

Noun

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

Verb

• To ripen or mature
• To search; to rummage.

Related

Opposite words

• unripe

Origin

• From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe, from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb-. Cognate with West Frisian ryp, Dutch rijp, German reif. Related to reap.
• From Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.