Word.ws English Dictionary

ripener

ripener noun: any chemical compound used to promote ripening.

Noun

ripener (plural ripeners)

  1. Any chemical compound used to promote ripening.
  2. Something that ripens.
    • a fast ripener

Forms of ripener

pluralripeners

Origin of ripener

From ripen + -er.

Questions about ripener

What does ripener mean?
Ripener means any chemical compound used to promote ripening.
What part of speech is ripener?
Ripener is a noun.
What is the plural of ripener?
The plural of ripener is ripeners.

Words near ripener in the dictionary

  1. ripely
  2. ripen
  3. ripen up
  4. ripened
  5. ripened up
  6. ripener
  7. ripeners
  8. ripeness
  9. ripenesses
  10. ripenest
  11. ripeneth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ripener (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ripener.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ripener. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.