ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: riper
form: ripest
form: rype
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.
Senses: examples: text: ripe grain
text: ripe apples
text: So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
ref: 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
qualifier: vegetables; seeds etc.; vegetables; seeds etc.
glosses: Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
raw_tags: of fruits
examples: text: ripe cheese
text: ripe wine
glosses: Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
raw_tags: of foods
examples: text: He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth:
text: And so may Place retain us still,
⁠And he the much-beloved again,
⁠A lord of large experience, train
To riper growth the mind and will: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 64:
text: She was a feature of that piety, but even at the ripe stage of acquaintance in which they occasionally arranged to meet at a concert or to go together to an exhibition she was not a feature of anything else.
ref: 1895, Henry James, The Altar of the Dead:
text: When you're ripe
You'll bleed out of control
ref: 2001, “Elite”, performed by Deftones:
synonyms: consummate
glosses: Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
glosses: Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge. (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
examples: text: while things were just ripe for a war
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.
ref: 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America:
text: nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.
ref: 1910, Theodore C. Williams, The Aeneid, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, Book IV Chapter 28:
text: But the time is ripe for changes. There's a growing feeling. That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
ref: 1988, Queensrÿche, Revolution Calling:
glosses: Ready for action or effect; prepared.
examples: text: I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air!
ref: 1927, Bartlett Cormack, The Racket (play):
glosses: Ready, willing, eager.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing, ripe cheeks.
ref: 1981, Daniel Curzon, Human Warmth & Other Stories, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
examples: text: Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
synonyms: word: Adrian Quist
word: adrip
word: aled up
word: all mops and brooms
word: arseholed
word: a sheet in the wind
word: a sheet in the wind's eye
word: bedrunken
word: befuddled
word: beliquored
word: besotted
word: besotten
word: bevvied
word: bibacious
word: bibulous
word: binned
word: bingoed
word: bladdered
word: blasted
word: blewed
word: blind
word: blind drunk
word: blitzed
word: blocked
word: blootered
word: blottoed
word: blue
word: bollocksed
word: bombed
word: boozy
word: bosky
word: bottled
word: Brahms
word: Brahms and Liszt
word: budgy
word: bungalowed
word: bungfu
word: burlin'
word: canned
word: clobbered
word: corned
word: cocked
word: cockeyed
word: crapulous
word: crocked
word: cunted
word: cup-shot
word: cup-shotten
word: cut
word: dead drunk
word: destroyed
word: disguised
word: drunk
word: drunk as a piper
word: drunked up
word: drunken
word: ebriated
word: ebriose
word: elephant's
word: elephant's trunk
word: elevated
word: faced
word: fap
word: fershnickered
word: flooey
word: floored
word: flush
word: flushed
word: flustered
word: fluted
word: fluthered
word: feeling no pain
word: fou
word: four sheets in the wind
word: fresh
word: fried
word: frosted
word: fuckered up
word: fuckfaced
word: fuddled
word: full
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: gassed
word: gattered
word: gee-eyed
word: gesuip
word: ginned
word: gished
word: glorious
word: groggified
word: groggy
word: half polluted
word: half cut
word: half lit
word: half seas over
word: hammered
word: have drink taken
word: have the sun in one's eyes
word: hazed
word: high as a Georgia pine
word: high as a kite
word: high
word: hog-whimpering
word: honkers
word: hooched up
word: hooted
word: hoovered
word: hosed
word: how came you so
word: impaired
word: in liquor
word: in one's altitudes
word: in one's cups
word: in the bag
word: in the drink
word: inebriate
word: inebriated
word: inebrious
word: insober
word: insobrietous
word: inter pocula
word: jaked
word: jarred
word: juiced
word: juiced up
word: kaylied
word: kisky
word: lamped
word: langered
word: langers
word: larruped
word: lash
word: lashed
word: lathered
word: legless
word: liquored up
word: liquory
word: lit
word: loaded
word: looped
word: loopy
word: loose
word: lubed
word: lubed up
word: lubricated
word: lushed
word: mad with it
word: maggot
word: maggoted
word: mashed
word: maudlin
word: medicated
word: messed up
word: monged
word: mortal
word: mortalled
word: Mozart and Liszt
word: muddled
word: muggy
word: mullered
word: munted
word: muzzy
word: MWI
word: nappy
word: newted
word: nimptopsical
word: obfuscated
word: obliviated
word: off one's box
word: off one's head
word: off one's tits
word: oiled
word: oiled up
word: Oliver
word: Oliver Twist
word: on the ran tan
word: ossified
word: out of it
word: out of one's box
word: out of one's face
word: out of one's head
word: out of sight
word: overcome
word: overrefreshed
word: overtaken
word: paralytic
word: parlatic
word: pickled
word: pie-eyed
word: pixilated
word: plastered
word: ploughed
word: plowed
word: polluted
word: potshot
word: potted
word: pounded
word: primed
word: puggled
word: quisby
word: raddled
word: rat-arsed
word: ratted
word: razzled
word: ripe
word: ripped
word: rolling
word: rubbered
word: sauced
word: sauced up
word: scammered
word: schloshed
word: schnockered
word: screwed
word: scuttered
word: sewed up
word: shedded
word: shellacked
word: shicker
word: shickered
word: shitty
word: skunked
word: slammed
word: slarmied
word: slizzard
word: sloppy drunk
word: sloshed
word: smashed
word: snockered
word: snookered
word: snozzled
word: snuffy
word: soaken
word: sodden
word: sotted
word: sottish
word: souped-up
word: soused
word: sozzled
word: sozzly
word: spanceled
word: spannered
word: spiffed
word: splashed
word: spongy
word: sprung
word: squiffed
word: steamboats
word: stewed
word: stinking
word: stinko
word: stoated
word: stoned
word: stonkered
word: stotious
word: strut
word: swacked
word: tanked
word: tanked up
word: temulent
word: temulentive
word: three sheets in the wind
word: three sheets to the wind
word: throwed
word: tight as a tick
word: tight
word: tilted
word: tippled
word: tipsy
word: tired and emotional
word: toasted
word: top-heavy
word: top-heavy with drink
word: toping
word: trashed
word: tuned
word: twatfaced
word: twisted
word: wastey
word: wazzed
word: wazzocked
word: well-oiled
word: wellied
word: wet
word: whittled
word: withered
word: wobbly
word: woozy
word: worse for liquor
word: worse for wear
word: wrecked
word: zoned
word: zonked
word: zooted
word: zorched
word: zotzed
glosses: Intoxicated.
examples: text: Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe, however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.
ref: 2004, Kenneth F. Warren, Administrative Law in the Political System, →ISBN, page 427:
topics: law
glosses: Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
examples: text: Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits.
ref: 2004, Colum McCann, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, →ISBN, page 141:
synonyms: word: bad
word: buckish
word: cacodorous
word: fetid
word: foul-smelling
word: funky
word: graveolent
word: malodorous
word: niffy
word: noisome
word: nonaromatic
word: nonfragrant
word: olid
word: on the nose
word: pongy
word: putredinous
word: reeking
word: reeky
word: ripe
word: smelly
word: stank
word: stenchy
word: stinking
word: stinksome
word: stinky
word: unaromatic
word: unfragrant
word: whiff
word: whiffy
glosses: Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
Derived terms: drop-ripe
force-ripe
like a ripe plum
market-ripe
overripe
rare-ripe
ripe for the picking
ripe for the plucking
ripen
ripeness
ripe old age
rope-ripe
time is ripe
underripe