English words for 'Extremely ripe.'
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- Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
- Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
- (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
- Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- (proscribed, used with with) Rife
- (colloquial) Ofa person, ready, willing, eager.
- Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
- (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
- far along in time
- at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- fully prepared or eager
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- cause to ripen or develop fully
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- become due for repayment
- cause to ripen and discharge pus
- grow old or older
- develop and work out fully in one's mind
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- having reached full natural growth or development
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- characteristic of maturity
- fully considered and perfected
- (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
- Profound; careful.
- a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a soft shade of a color
- geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana
- a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state
- The property of being mellow.
- To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
- (originally US, informal, followed by out, of a person) To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
- To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
- (of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
- (also reflexive, originally US, informal) Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- (archaic except British, regional, of soil) To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
- To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (archaic except British, regional) To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
- make or grow (more) mellow
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- soften, make mellow
- (of leaves, seeds, plants, etc.) Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
- (also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.
- Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
- Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
- Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, calm, relaxed.
- (of a place, or the climate or weather) Fruitful and warm.
- (of colour, sound, style, etc.) Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
- (also figuratively, of fruit) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
- (chiefly US, slang) Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
- (of soil) Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
- softened through age or experience
- slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
- unhurried and relaxed
- having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
- marked by great fruitfulness
- lucrative
- having an (over)abundance of flesh
- having a relatively large diameter
- containing or composed of fat
- (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bulbous; rotund.
- Alternative form of phat.
- (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- (music) Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
- Fertile; productive.
- Bountiful.
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Thick; large.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
- excess bodily weight
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- (slang) An erection.
- A fop or dandy.
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- (Australia) A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- marked by great fruitfulness
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- capable of reproducing
- intellectually productive
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
- (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- marked by great fruitfulness
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- yielding positive results
- having the ability to produce or originate
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- (medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- (linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- (medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- marked by great fruitfulness
- marked by richness and fullness of flavor
- high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air
- causing indignation due to hypocrisy
- pleasantly full and mellow
- suggestive of or characterized by great expense
- having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources)
- containing plenty of fat, or eggs, or sugar
- affording an abundant supply
- very productive
- strong; intense
- of great worth or quality
- possessing material wealth
- Remunerative.
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- (computing) Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
- Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
- (slang, uncommon) Pornographic; titillating.
- (informal) Very amusing.
- Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
- Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
- (informal) Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
- Not faint or delicate; vivid.
- Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
- Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
- Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
- Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
- A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year).
- (medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
- the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends
- a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause
- the gathering of a ripened crop
- the consequence of an effort or activity
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- the season for gathering crops
- (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
- The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
- (UK, dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
- (agriculture) The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
- The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
- (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
- remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
- gather, as of natural products
- (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
- (transitive) To take (an organ) from an organ donor.
- (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
- (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
- (transitive) To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population.
- (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture.
- (slang) The human head.
- (slang) A female breast.
- (Malaysia, self-deprecatory) An Indian person who cannot speak Tamil.
- (Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Malay person who cannot speak Malay.
- A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- (New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.
- (South Africa, Australia, Kenya, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
- A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
- The coconut palm.
- the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries
- tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
- large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
- Juicy, succulent.
- (of food) Savoury, delicious.
- (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
- (British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
- (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
- (slang) Drunk; inebriated.
- (British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
- Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
- tender and full of juice
- ostentatiously rich and superior in quality
- having strong sexual appeal
- produced or growing in extreme abundance
- The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
- The plant Rubus idaeus.
- Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
- (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate a fart, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A physically disabled person.
- A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
- red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
- (intransitive) Of ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked.
- (intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
- (intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
- (intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
- (ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
- (transitive) To express by smiling.
- change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
- express with a smile
- (figurative) Favour; propitious regard.
- A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.
- a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
- (uncountable) The flesh of the edible fruit.
- The edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora edulis; a round fruit with a purple or yellow skin which is native to Brazil.
- (colloquial) A passionate person; a lover.
- A plant, passiflora, that produces an edible fruit.
- egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks
- any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
- any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers
- (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
- Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
- Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
- (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
- Benincasa hispida, the winter melon
- Momordica charantia, the bitter melon
- (countable, slang) The head, the brain.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
- Alternative form of mellon.
- (countable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
- (usually in the plural, slang) The breasts.
- sweet fleshy red fruit
- any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry
- a soft red birthmark
- The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
- (US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
- Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
- (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
- A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
- The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- (botany) Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit.
- (gerontology) Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
- (biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.
- (cytology, of a cell) Condition when the cell ceases to divide.
- (cytology) Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.
- the property characteristic of old age
- the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
- a red the color of ripe cherries
- a red fruit with a single hard stone
- wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
- any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
- The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
- Cherry red.
- The burning tip of a cigarette.
- (cricket, slang) A red cricket ball.
- (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
- The wood of a cherry tree.
- (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
- (cricket, slang) A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
- Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
- A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- (transitive, Internet slang) To remove participation status from or contributed material attributed to users usually deemed inactive or undesirable from an interactive computer service or website for the sake of housekeeping.
- (transitive) To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
- (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
- (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
- (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
- produce by cracking
- improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition
- make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- break up the molecules of
- change for the better
- (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better.
- (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits.
- (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
- any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden
- any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
- Any of various squashes, mostly varieties of Curcubita pepo, that are harvested when immature, while the rind is still tender and edible.
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- a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a soft shade of a color
- geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana
- a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state
- The property of being mellow.
- the gathering of a ripened crop
- the consequence of an effort or activity
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- the season for gathering crops
- (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
- The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
- (UK, dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
- (agriculture) The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
- The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
- (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
- remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
- gather, as of natural products
- (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
- (transitive) To take (an organ) from an organ donor.
- (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
- (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
- (transitive) To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population.
- (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture.
- (slang) The human head.
- (slang) A female breast.
- (Malaysia, self-deprecatory) An Indian person who cannot speak Tamil.
- (Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Malay person who cannot speak Malay.
- A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- (New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.
- (South Africa, Australia, Kenya, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
- A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
- The coconut palm.
- the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries
- tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
- large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
- The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
- The plant Rubus idaeus.
- Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
- (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate a fart, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A physically disabled person.
- A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
- red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
- (uncountable) The flesh of the edible fruit.
- The edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora edulis; a round fruit with a purple or yellow skin which is native to Brazil.
- (colloquial) A passionate person; a lover.
- A plant, passiflora, that produces an edible fruit.
- egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks
- any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
- any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers
- (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
- Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
- Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
- (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
- Benincasa hispida, the winter melon
- Momordica charantia, the bitter melon
- (countable, slang) The head, the brain.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
- Alternative form of mellon.
- (countable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
- (usually in the plural, slang) The breasts.
- sweet fleshy red fruit
- any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry
- a soft red birthmark
- The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
- (US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
- Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
- (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
- A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
- The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- (botany) Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit.
- (gerontology) Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
- (biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.
- (cytology, of a cell) Condition when the cell ceases to divide.
- (cytology) Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.
- the property characteristic of old age
- the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
- a red the color of ripe cherries
- a red fruit with a single hard stone
- wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
- any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
- The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
- Cherry red.
- The burning tip of a cigarette.
- (cricket, slang) A red cricket ball.
- (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
- The wood of a cherry tree.
- (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
- (cricket, slang) A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
- Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
- A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- (transitive, Internet slang) To remove participation status from or contributed material attributed to users usually deemed inactive or undesirable from an interactive computer service or website for the sake of housekeeping.
- (transitive) To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
- (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
- (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
- (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
- any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden
- any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
- Any of various squashes, mostly varieties of Curcubita pepo, that are harvested when immature, while the rind is still tender and edible.
- Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
- Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
- (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
- Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- (proscribed, used with with) Rife
- (colloquial) Ofa person, ready, willing, eager.
- Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
- (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
- far along in time
- at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- fully prepared or eager
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
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- cause to ripen or develop fully
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- become due for repayment
- cause to ripen and discharge pus
- grow old or older
- develop and work out fully in one's mind
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- having reached full natural growth or development
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- characteristic of maturity
- fully considered and perfected
- (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
- Profound; careful.
- To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
- (originally US, informal, followed by out, of a person) To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
- To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
- (of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
- (also reflexive, originally US, informal) Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- (archaic except British, regional, of soil) To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
- To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (archaic except British, regional) To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
- make or grow (more) mellow
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- soften, make mellow
- (of leaves, seeds, plants, etc.) Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
- (also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.
- Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
- Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
- Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, calm, relaxed.
- (of a place, or the climate or weather) Fruitful and warm.
- (of colour, sound, style, etc.) Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
- (also figuratively, of fruit) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
- (chiefly US, slang) Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
- (of soil) Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
- softened through age or experience
- slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
- unhurried and relaxed
- having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
- (intransitive) Of ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked.
- (intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
- (intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
- (intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
- (ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
- (transitive) To express by smiling.
- change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
- express with a smile
- (figurative) Favour; propitious regard.
- A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.
- a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
- Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
- Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
- (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
- Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- (proscribed, used with with) Rife
- (colloquial) Ofa person, ready, willing, eager.
- Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
- (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
- far along in time
- at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- fully prepared or eager
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- produce by cracking
- improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition
- make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- break up the molecules of
- change for the better
- (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better.
- (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits.
- (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
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- Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
- Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
- (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
- Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- (proscribed, used with with) Rife
- (colloquial) Ofa person, ready, willing, eager.
- Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
- (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
- far along in time
- at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- fully prepared or eager
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- marked by great fruitfulness
- lucrative
- having an (over)abundance of flesh
- having a relatively large diameter
- containing or composed of fat
- (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bulbous; rotund.
- Alternative form of phat.
- (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- (music) Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
- Fertile; productive.
- Bountiful.
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Thick; large.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
- excess bodily weight
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- (slang) An erection.
- A fop or dandy.
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- (Australia) A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- marked by great fruitfulness
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- capable of reproducing
- intellectually productive
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
- (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- marked by great fruitfulness
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- yielding positive results
- having the ability to produce or originate
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- (medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- (linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- (medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- marked by great fruitfulness
- marked by richness and fullness of flavor
- high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air
- causing indignation due to hypocrisy
- pleasantly full and mellow
- suggestive of or characterized by great expense
- having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources)
- containing plenty of fat, or eggs, or sugar
- affording an abundant supply
- very productive
- strong; intense
- of great worth or quality
- possessing material wealth
- Remunerative.
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- (computing) Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
- Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
- (slang, uncommon) Pornographic; titillating.
- (informal) Very amusing.
- Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
- Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
- (informal) Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
- Not faint or delicate; vivid.
- Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
- Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
- Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
- Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
- A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year).
- (medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
- the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends
- a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause
- Juicy, succulent.
- (of food) Savoury, delicious.
- (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
- (British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
- (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
- (slang) Drunk; inebriated.
- (British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
- Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
- tender and full of juice
- ostentatiously rich and superior in quality
- having strong sexual appeal
- produced or growing in extreme abundance
- To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
- (originally US, informal, followed by out, of a person) To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
- To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
- (of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
- (also reflexive, originally US, informal) Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- (archaic except British, regional, of soil) To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
- To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (archaic except British, regional) To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
- make or grow (more) mellow
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- soften, make mellow
- (of leaves, seeds, plants, etc.) Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
- (also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.
- Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
- Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
- Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, calm, relaxed.
- (of a place, or the climate or weather) Fruitful and warm.
- (of colour, sound, style, etc.) Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
- (also figuratively, of fruit) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
- (chiefly US, slang) Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
- (of soil) Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
- softened through age or experience
- slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
- unhurried and relaxed
- having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging