ripe
Ready for picking
Ripe describes fruit or grain ready to be picked and eaten—fully developed, at peak flavor.
The meaning extends to anything ready for action or use: ripe for change, the time is ripe.
A ripe old age is advanced but healthy.
Ripe smells are strong and pungent, often unpleasantly so: The cheese was ripe.
Gathering mature crops
- juicyFull of moisture
- plumpAgreeably fat, well-filled
- succulentMoist and flavorful
- sweetTasting of sugar
fragrant · picking · orchard · mellow · soft · bruised · tender · flesh
Made ready beforehand
- poisedCalm and controlled
- primedMade ready beforehand
- setArrange in position
- opportuneFavorable in timing
timely · due · moment · conditions · timing · opportunity · perfect · ideal
Advanced in years
- developedGrew or advanced
- full-grownAt maximum size
- seasonedFlavored or battle-tested
- mellowSoft, ripe, relaxed
refined · cultivated · experienced · wisdom · sophisticated · prime · peak · settled
Ample supply, overflowing
- bountifulPlentiful and generous
- fecundRichly reproductive
- prolificProducing abundantly and often
- fruitfulProducing abundant results
productive · teeming · flourishing · verdant · lush · generative · luxuriant · plentiful
harvest
Gathering mature crops
sweet · fragrant · picking · orchard · mellow · soft · bruised · tender · flesh · pectin
prepared
Made ready beforehand
opportune · timely · due · moment · conditions · timing · opportunity · perfect · ideal · propitious
aged
Advanced in years
- developedGrew or advanced
- full-grownAt maximum size
- seasonedFlavored or battle-tested
mellow · refined · cultivated · experienced · wisdom · sophisticated · prime · peak · settled · mellowed
abundance
Ample supply, overflowing
fruitful · productive · teeming · flourishing · verdant · lush · generative · luxuriant · plentiful · rich
blue
Primary color; also sad
bawdy · ribald · risqué · off-color · earthy · salty · indecent · naughty · suggestive · improper
smelly
Having foul odor
stinky · fetid · potent · aromatic · whiffy · reeking · powerful · intense · malodorous · cheesy
- food descriptorsedible, inedible, raw, cooked, fresh
- Food Freshnessexpiration date, best by date, freshness, sell by date, spoilage
- food qualitiesfresh, spoiled, rotten, bruised, mushy
- fruit marketapple, banana, orange, grape, mango
- fruit qualitiesjuiciness, sweetness, freshness, flavor, aroma
- growth stagesmature, immature, developing, adult, juvenile
ripeunready
Not yet prepared
premature · untimely · inopportune · unprepared · unsuitable
- ripe for the pickingEasily obtained or exploited
- ripe old ageImpressively long life
- ripe fruitFully developed edible harvest
- ripe bananaMature tropical fruit
- too ripe
- vine ripe
ripen, unripe, ripening, ripened, ripens, overripe, ripeness, ripest, riper