English Explanatory Dictionary

ripe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
  2. Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
  3. Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
  4. Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.
  5. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
  6. Of a person, ready, willing, eager.
  7. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
  8. Intoxicated.
  9. Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
  10. Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
noun
  1. A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
verb
  1. To ripen or mature.
noun
  1. The bank of a river.
verb
  1. To search; to rummage.
adj
  1. Rife
noun
  1. A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E).
name
  1. A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).

Pronunciation

/ɹaɪp/ en-us-ripe.ogg

Word forms

ripe riper ripest rype ripes riping riped

Etymology

From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.

Synonyms

consummate Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk blitzed blocked blootered blottoed blue bollocksed bombed boozy bosky bottled Brahms Brahms and Liszt budgy bungalowed bungfu burlin' canned clobbered corned cocked cockeyed crapulous crocked cunted cup-shot cup-shotten cut dead drunk destroyed disguised drunk drunk as a piper drunked up drunken ebriated ebriose elephant's

Antonyms

unripe

Related words

riparian rip

Derived words

drop-ripe firstripe force-ripe like a ripe plum market-ripe nonripe overripe rare-ripe ripe for the picking ripe for the plucking ripeish ripely ripen ripeness ripe old age rope-ripe time is ripe ultraripe underripe under-ripe
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