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1. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
   "ripe peaches"
   - mature
    
2. Fully prepared or eager
   "the colonists were ripe for revolution"
    
3. Most suitable or right for a particular purpose
   "the time is ripe for great sociological changes"
   - good, right
    
4. At the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
   "a ripe mind"
    
5. Far along in time
   "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"
   - advanced

Derived forms: ripest, riper

See also: aged, late, mature, mellow, mellowed, opportune, overripe, ready, ripely, ripened, ripeness

Antonym: green

Encyclopedia: Ripe Ripe, East Sussex