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ripe

adj · name · noun · verb · 21 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK, US: /ɹaɪp/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -aɪp
  • CMU ARPABET: R AY1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • ripe grain
  • ripe apples

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • ripe cheese
  • ripe wine

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: consummate

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Ready for action or effect; prepared.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adj

Meaning 6

Of a person, ready, willing, eager.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

adj

Meaning 7

Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

adj

Meaning 8

Intoxicated.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 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, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, feeling no pain, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half polluted, half cut, half lit, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kettled, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mabok, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, ratfaced, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soshed, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tight, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Antonyms: none provided

9

adj

Meaning 9

Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

adj

Meaning 10

Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bad, buckish, cacodorous, fetid, foul-smelling, funky, graveolent, malodorous, mawkish, niffy, noisome, nonaromatic, nonfragrant, olid, on the nose, pongy, putredinous, reeking, reeky, ripe, smelly, stank, stenchy, stinking, stinksome, stinky, unaromatic, unfragrant, whiff, whiffy

Antonyms: none provided

11

adj

Meaning 11

Rife

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, proscribed

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

name

Meaning 12

A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

The bank of a river.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To ripen or mature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To search; to rummage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

adjective

Meaning 18

fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • ripe peaches
  • full-bodied mature wines

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mature

Antonyms: green

19

adjective satellite

Meaning 19

far along in time

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a man of advanced age
  • advanced in years
  • a ripe old age
  • the ripe age of 90

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: advanced

Antonyms: none provided

20

adjective satellite

Meaning 20

at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a ripe mind

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

adjective satellite

Meaning 21

most suitable or right for a particular purpose

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a good time to plant tomatoes
  • the right time to act
  • the time is ripe for great sociological changes

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: good, right

Antonyms: none provided

History

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.

An alteration of rife.

Recorded as Ripe in 1086 (DB), from Old English rip, "edge or strip of land".

From Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.

Across languages

Translations

173 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: ناضِج (nāḍij) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Arabic: حاصِد (ḥāṣid) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Arabic: طايب (ṭāyib) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Aragonese: maduro — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Aragonese: matur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Armenian: հասած (hasac) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Armenian: հասուն (hasun) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Aromanian: coptu — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Aromanian: mãturu — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Assamese: পকা (poka) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Azerbaijani: yetişmiş — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Azerbaijani: dəymiş — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Basque: zori — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Breton: darev — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Breton: azv — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Bulgarian: зрял (zrjal) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Catalan: madur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Cebuano: hinog — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Chinese Cantonese: 熟 (suk6) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 熟 (soit) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Chinese Mandarin: 成熟 (chéngshú) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Chinese Mandarin: 熟 (shú) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Czech: zralý — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Dalmatian: matoir — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Dolgan: буспут (busput) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Dutch: rijp — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Erzya: кенерезь (kenereź) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Esperanto: matura — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Estonian: küps — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Finnish: kypsä — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Finnish: tuleentunut — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • French: mûr — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • French: mûre — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Friulian: madûr — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Georgian: მწიფე (mc̣ipe) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • German: reif — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Greek: ώριμος (órimos) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Ancient Greek: πέπειρος (pépeiros) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Ancient Greek: δρυπεπής (drupepḗs) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Gujarati: પાકેલું (pākelũ) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Gujarati: પાકું (pākũ) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Hebrew: בשל (bashél) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Higaonon: nahinog — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Hungarian: érett — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Hunsrik: zeidich — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Indonesian: masak — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Indonesian: matang — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Interlingua: matur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Italian: maturo — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Italian: matura — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Japanese: 熟した (jukushita) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Javanese: mateng — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Kannada: ಪಕವ (pakava) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Khmer: ទុំ (tum) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Kyrgyz: бышкан (bışkan) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Kyrgyz: жетилген (jetilgen) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Latin: mātūrus — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Latin: mītis — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Latvian: nobriedis — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Latvian: nogatavojies — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Latvian: gatavs — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Lombard: madur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Luxembourgish: zeideg — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Malay: masak — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Maltese: misjur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Mansaka: inog — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Manx: appee — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Māori: tāngoungou — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Māori: tāngōngō — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Moksha: кенерьф (keneŕf) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Navajo: neestʼą́ — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Nepali: पाकेको (pākeko) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Norman: meux — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Norwegian Bokmål: moden — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skjær — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Occitan: madur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Persian: رسیده (raside) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Piedmontese: madur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Plautdietsch: riep — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Polish: dojrzały — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Portuguese: maduro — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Quechua: puqusqa — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Romanian: copt — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Romanian: matur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Romansh: madir — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Russian: зре́лый (zrélyj) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Russian: спе́лый (spélyj) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Sardinian: cottu — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Serbo-Croatian: зре̏о — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Serbo-Croatian: zrȅo — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Slovak: zrelý — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Slovene: zrel — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Southern Altai: бышкан (bïškan) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Spanish: maduro — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Spanish: jecho — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Swedish: mogen — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Tamil: பழுத்த (paḻutta) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Tamil: கனிந்த (kaṉinta) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Telugu: పండు (paṇḍu) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Tetum: tasak — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Thai: สุก (sùk) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Turkish: olgun — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Ottoman Turkish: اولغون (olğun) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Vietnamese: chín — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Walloon: meur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Walloon: maweur — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Welsh: aeddfed — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Yiddish: צײַטיק (tsaytik) — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Zazaki: bıyaye — ready for reaping or gathering, of fruits and seeds
  • Catalan: madur — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Estonian: küps — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Finnish: kypsä — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • German: gereift — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Italian: maturato — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Māori: ngaere — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Portuguese: maduro — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Russian: вы́держанный (výderžannyj) — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Spanish: madurado — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Tamil: பழுத்த (paḻutta) — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Ottoman Turkish: اولغون (olğun) — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Zazaki: resaye (diq) — advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • Bulgarian: зрял (zrjal) — having attained its full development; mature
  • Catalan: madur — having attained its full development; mature
  • Estonian: küps — having attained its full development; mature
  • Finnish: kypsä — having attained its full development; mature
  • Finnish: valmis — having attained its full development; mature
  • French: accompli — having attained its full development; mature
  • French: accomplie — having attained its full development; mature
  • German: ausgereift — having attained its full development; mature
  • Hungarian: érett — having attained its full development; mature
  • Italian: maturo — having attained its full development; mature
  • Māori: pakari — having attained its full development; mature
  • Plautdietsch: riep — having attained its full development; mature
  • Portuguese: maduro — having attained its full development; mature
  • Portuguese: maturo — having attained its full development; mature
  • Russian: зре́лый (zrélyj) — having attained its full development; mature
  • Tamil: பழுத்த (paḻutta) — having attained its full development; mature
  • Tamil: கனிந்த (kaṉinta) — having attained its full development; mature
  • Zazaki: resaye (diq) — having attained its full development; mature
  • Zazaki: resayi — having attained its full development; mature
  • Catalan: madur — maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors
  • Estonian: küps — maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors
  • Finnish: kypsä — maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors
  • French: mûr — maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors
  • French: mûre — maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors
  • Tamil: முற்றிய (muṟṟiya) — maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors
  • Tamil: முதிர்ந்த (mutirnta) — maturated or suppurated, of sores and tumors
  • Bulgarian: готов (gotov) — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • Catalan: preparat — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • Estonian: valmis — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • Finnish: valmistautunut — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • Finnish: valmis — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • French: mûr — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • French: mûre — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • Galician: listo — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • Galician: preparado — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • Italian: pronto — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • Tamil: சரியானது (cariyāṉatu) — ready for action or effect; prepared
  • Finnish: täyteläinen — like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness
  • Finnish: tuoksahtava — having a disagreeable odor
  • Finnish: pahanhajuinen — having a disagreeable odor
  • Finnish: kypsä — fruit or vegetable which has ripened
  • Dutch: rijpen — to ripen or mature
  • Finnish: kypsyä — to ripen or mature
  • Galician: madurar — to ripen or mature
  • Hungarian: érik — to ripen or mature
  • Hungarian: érlel — to ripen or mature
  • Italian: maturare — to ripen or mature
  • Spanish: madurar — to ripen or mature
  • Tamil: பழு (paḻu) — to ripen or mature
  • Tamil: கனி (kaṉi) — to ripen or mature
  • Tamil: முற்று (muṟṟu) — to ripen or mature
  • Zazaki: biyayen — to ripen or mature