ripe
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(a) fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- ripe peaches
- full-bodied mature wines
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(s) fully prepared or eager
- the colonists were ripe for revolution
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(s) most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- a good time to plant tomatoes
- the right time to act
- the time is ripe for great sociological changes
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(s) at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
- a ripe mind
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(s) far along in time
- a man of advanced age
- advanced in years
- a ripe old age
- the ripe age of 90