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Ripe

adjective

(compar. riper; superl. ripest)

Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used. Synonym: mature. "Full-bodied mature wines"

Fully prepared or eager.

Most suitable or right for a particular purpose. Synonyms: good, right. "The right time to act" , "The time is ripe for great sociological changes"

At the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge.

Far along in time. Synonym: advanced. "Advanced in years" , "A ripe old age" , "The ripe age of 90"

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"Ripe" Quotes from Famous Books

... being here to do with it? You took every care of her. She was old—ripe—ready to go. The wonder is that she has lived so long, with such a frail hold ...

— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond

... his tomahawk in his belt and his bow in his hand went out to explore the country around in order to determine what course was best to pursue. Taking a south-east direction, the face of the country was level and very fertile, producing wild fruits and nuts in abundance, which were now ripe, and with which the trees ...

— The American Family Robinson - or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West • D. W. Belisle

... were, indeed, short-lived; for the times were not yet ripe for the complete triumph of democratic ideas. But a great gain for freedom was made. The reestablished monarchies never dared to make themselves as despotic as those which the Revolution ...

— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

... miraculously. Their advent is prepared. They are as much caused as the fall of a ripe apple from the tree, or the regular bursting of the buds in spring. The authors of the Revolution were in their graves. Its leaders, or its instruments, appeared upon the scene in '89. After life's fitful fever Voltaire was sleeping well. Rousseau's tortured heart ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... each step of advance taken has been fruitful of all good and productive of no evil. Emancipation of the colored race in Missouri has been achieved in a most thorough manner, substantially achieved even before the war; and to-day the community is ripe for the declaration that all are created equal, and that there is no reason to exclude from any right, civil or political, on the ground of race or color. I feel proud to say likewise that Missouri has gone further, and wiped from her statute-book large portions of that unjust ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

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