Meaning & use
ripe
Fully grown and ready to be picked or eaten, especially describing fruit.
See it in a sentence
These bananas won't be ripe enough to eat for another two days.
She picked only the ripest tomatoes from the vine for the salad.
A note on using this word
"Ripe" also appears in the figurative phrase "ripe for," meaning ready or suitable for something, as in "ripe for change."
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Words with an opposite meaning
unripegreen
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