fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; ripe peaches; full-bodied mature wines
[ Syn: mature ]
fully prepared or eager; the colonists were ripe for revolution'
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
at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; a ripe mind'
far along in time; a man of advanced age; advanced in years; a ripe old age; the ripe age of 90
[ Syn: advanced ]