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ripeness

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ripe  (rp)
adj. rip·er, rip·est
1. Fully developed; mature: ripe peaches.
2. Resembling matured fruit, as in fullness.
3. Sufficiently advanced in preparation or aging to be used or eaten: ripe cheese.
4. Thoroughly matured, as by study or experience; seasoned: ripe judgment.
5. Advanced in years: the ripe age of 90.
6. Fully prepared to do or undergo something; ready: "By 1965 the republic was ripe for a coup" (Alex Shoumatoff).
7. Sufficiently advanced; opportune: The time is ripe for great societal changes.
8. Exhibiting overtones of or references to sex; scatological: "The language on the stage was riper than anything I have heard in a lifetime of newspaper work" (John Hughes).
9. Emitting a foul odor, especially body odor.
[Middle English, from Old English rpe.]
ripely adv.
ripeness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ripenessripeness - the state of being ripe              
matureness, maturity - state of being mature; full development
greenness - the state of not being ripe
Translations
ripeness [ˈraɪpnɪs] n → madurez f
ripeness [ˈraɪpnɪs] n → maturité f
ripeness [ˈraɪpnɪs] ripe n → Reife f
ripeness [ˈraɪpnɪs] n → maturità


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The owner of the field came again a few days later and saw the wheat shedding the grain from excess of ripeness.
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Before the blade got fairly into them, they split of their own ripeness, with a delicious sound.
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What strikes one in it is that it is a phenomenon to the best of my knowledge--and you know what my knowledge is--unprecedented and unique in the history of mankind; the arrival of a nation at an ultimate stage of evolution without having passed through the mediate one; the passage of the fruit, in other words, from crudity to rottenness, without the interposition of a period of useful (and ornamental) ripeness.
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