ripe

adjectif

1. 1

   Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.

   ripe grain

   ripe apples

   So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.

2. 2

   Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.

   ripe cheese

   ripe wine

3. 3

   figuréHaving attained its full development; mature; perfected.

   He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.

   And so may Place retain us still, ⁠And he the much-beloved again, ⁠A lord of large experience, train To riper growth the mind and will: […]

   She was a feature of that piety, but even at the ripe stage of acquaintance in which they occasionally arranged to meet at a concert or to go together to an exhibition she was not a feature of anything else.

   When you're ripe You'll bleed out of control

4. 4

   archaïqueOf a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.

5. 5

   Ready for action or effect; prepared.

   while things were just ripe for a war

   I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.

   nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.

   But the time is ripe for changes. There's a growing feeling. That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due

6. 6

   Of a person, ready, willing, eager.

   I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air!

7. 7

   Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.

   Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.

   He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing, ripe cheeks.

8. 8

   obsolèteIntoxicated.

   Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?

9. 9

   Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.

   Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe, however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.

10. 10

    Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.

    His Majesty [a purple emperor butterfly] has rather peculiar tastes for so elegant a being. You just hang a piece of decidedly ripe meat anywhere near.

    Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits.

nom

1. 1

   A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.

   When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.

verbe

1. 1

   To ripen or mature.

   […] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […]

nom

1. 1

   The bank of a river.

verbe

1. 1

   obsolèteTo search; to rummage.

adjectif

1. 1

   Rife

   The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes.

Formes

pluriel

ripes

comparatif

riper

superlatif

ripest

passé

riped

participe passé

riped

participe présent

riping

3ᵉ personne du singulier

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