Ripe
adjective
Ready to eat or pick. Mostly used to describe fruit or vegetables.
The apples on the tree are ripe and ready to be picked.
Often appears as...
- ripe fruit
- ripe and ready
adjective
Fully developed and ready to be made use of or acted upon.
The time is ripe for a discussion on this issue.
Often appears as...
- ripe for discussion
- ripe for change
adjective
Having a strong smell or taste because of being kept until almost or completely decayed.
The room smelled of ripe cheese.
Often appears as...
- ripe smell
- ripe cheese
adjective
In informal context, used to describe something as excessive or extreme.
These delays are getting ripe.
Often appears as...
- ripe old age
- ripe nonsense
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
adjective
Ready to eat or pick. Mostly used to describe fruit or vegetables.
The apples on the tree are ripe and ready to be picked.
Often appears as...
- ripe fruit
- ripe and ready
adjective
Fully developed and ready to be made use of or acted upon.
The time is ripe for a discussion on this issue.
Often appears as...
- ripe for discussion
- ripe for change
adjective
Having a strong smell or taste because of being kept until almost or completely decayed.
The room smelled of ripe cheese.
Often appears as...
- ripe smell
- ripe cheese
adjective
In informal context, used to describe something as excessive or extreme.
These delays are getting ripe.
Often appears as...
- ripe old age
- ripe nonsense
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
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Pro Tip 1/2Sensory Clues
Ripe often involves sensory indicators such as color, softness, or aroma indicating edibility.
The tomato turned a deep red, showing it was ripe.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Overripe
Be careful—'ripe' means ready to eat, not overripe or too soft, which may imply decay.
The bananas are ripe, but tomorrow they might be too mushy.
Pro Tip 1/2Sensory Clues
Ripe often involves sensory indicators such as color, softness, or aroma indicating edibility.
The tomato turned a deep red, showing it was ripe.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Overripe
Be careful—'ripe' means ready to eat, not overripe or too soft, which may imply decay.
The bananas are ripe, but tomorrow they might be too mushy.
Pro Tip 1/2Sensory Clues
Ripe often involves sensory indicators such as color, softness, or aroma indicating edibility.
The tomato turned a deep red, showing it was ripe.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Overripe
Be careful—'ripe' means ready to eat, not overripe or too soft, which may imply decay.
The bananas are ripe, but tomorrow they might be too mushy.
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3 lessons on decision-mak...
health, wealth and relationships -- these outcomes don't only depend on the quality of our decision-making, but also the roll of life's dice. For example, we can be perfectly health-conscious and still get unlucky with something like cancer. Or we can smoke 20 a day and live to a ripe old age,
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How do we reason for a...
emphasis con sentences on the importance of rationality 90 and you know of course a lot of psychological data not to mention common sense tells us that we're really picking rotten reasoner's on the individual level I mean we we overgeneralize we're ripe
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Isabel Allende: Tales of...
I'm fed up with the power that a few exert over the many through gender, income, race and class. I think that the time is ripe to make fundamental changes in our civilization. But for real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world.
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What's hidden among the...
Growing in the soil mat was a huckleberry bush with ripe berries! He ate some and waited for his friend. Stephen had discovered a new world hundreds of feet above the ground. His climb led to more excursions, with safety equipment, thank goodness,
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The Great Migration and...
many of whom were not even being paid for their hard work. Many of them were working for the right to live on the land that they were farming. They were sharecroppers and not even being paid. So they were ripe for recruitment. But it turned out
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Courtney Martin:...
but you get the picture. I was raised with a very heavy sense of unfinished legacy. At this ripe old age of 30, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to grow up in this horrible, beautiful time, and I've decided, for me,
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Canada's Wild Rivers -...
with ripe area an organization that I co-founded that brings youth on free science expeditions we're working to foster better connections between youth water and science
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Macaques SLAP Squirrels...
are the largest tree fruits in the world a feast but until they're ripe they remain completely inedible and macaques unfortunately find it hard to tell which
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Henry Evans and Chad...
Overnight, I became a mute quadriplegic at the ripe old age of 40. It took me several years, but with the help of an incredibly supportive family,
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To Remember or Not to...
maiden Kiwis and ripe melons too but not a vegetable in sight hahahaha nary a one that's definitely a
Video examples
3 lessons on decision-mak...
health, wealth and relationships -- these outcomes don't only depend on the quality of our decision-making, but also the roll of life's dice. For example, we can be perfectly health-conscious and still get unlucky with something like cancer. Or we can smoke 20 a day and live to a ripe old age,
Video examples
How do we reason for a...
emphasis con sentences on the importance of rationality 90 and you know of course a lot of psychological data not to mention common sense tells us that we're really picking rotten reasoner's on the individual level I mean we we overgeneralize we're ripe
Video examples
Isabel Allende: Tales of...
I'm fed up with the power that a few exert over the many through gender, income, race and class. I think that the time is ripe to make fundamental changes in our civilization. But for real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world.
Video examples
What's hidden among the...
Growing in the soil mat was a huckleberry bush with ripe berries! He ate some and waited for his friend. Stephen had discovered a new world hundreds of feet above the ground. His climb led to more excursions, with safety equipment, thank goodness,
Video examples
The Great Migration and...
many of whom were not even being paid for their hard work. Many of them were working for the right to live on the land that they were farming. They were sharecroppers and not even being paid. So they were ripe for recruitment. But it turned out
Video examples
Courtney Martin:...
but you get the picture. I was raised with a very heavy sense of unfinished legacy. At this ripe old age of 30, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to grow up in this horrible, beautiful time, and I've decided, for me,
Video examples
Canada's Wild Rivers -...
with ripe area an organization that I co-founded that brings youth on free science expeditions we're working to foster better connections between youth water and science
Video examples
Macaques SLAP Squirrels...
are the largest tree fruits in the world a feast but until they're ripe they remain completely inedible and macaques unfortunately find it hard to tell which
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Henry Evans and Chad...
Overnight, I became a mute quadriplegic at the ripe old age of 40. It took me several years, but with the help of an incredibly supportive family,
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To Remember or Not to...
maiden Kiwis and ripe melons too but not a vegetable in sight hahahaha nary a one that's definitely a
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Sophie Rundle
English Actress
The 'Jamestown' set was so convincing. It had been raining for a few days before we started filming, and when we turned up, we were knee-high in mud. There were pigs and goats everywhere, too, which meant the whole place smelled pretty ripe. It definitely helped us enter the 'Jamestown' world immediately.
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Lisa Gansky
American Businesswoman
Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.
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Lea DeLaria
American Comedian
I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!
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Aarti Sequeira
Indian Chef
Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.
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Aaron Koblin
American Artist
I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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Linus Torvalds
Finnish Businessman
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
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Chris Patten
British Politician
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Sophie Rundle
English Actress
The 'Jamestown' set was so convincing. It had been raining for a few days before we started filming, and when we turned up, we were knee-high in mud. There were pigs and goats everywhere, too, which meant the whole place smelled pretty ripe. It definitely helped us enter the 'Jamestown' world immediately.
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Lisa Gansky
American Businesswoman
Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.
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Lea DeLaria
American Comedian
I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!
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Aarti Sequeira
Indian Chef
Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.
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Aaron Koblin
American Artist
I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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Linus Torvalds
Finnish Businessman
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
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Chris Patten
British Politician
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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