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ripeness

ripeness noun: the characteristic of being ripe.

Noun

ripeness (countable and uncountable, plural ripenesses)

  1. The characteristic of being ripe.
    Antonyms:
    unripeness

ripeness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

ripeness in Hindi

ripeness; maturity; full development
परिपक्वता paripakvatā

ripeness in Tamil

பரிபாகம், பாகம், கனி, தெட்பம், பரிவு

ripeness in Urdu

بلوغ, پختگی

ripeness in Bengali

ripeness, maturity
পরিণতি porinoti
More languagesFewer languages
ripeness in Gujarati
પાક pāk
ripeness in Sanskrit
परिणाम pariṇāma

Antonyms of ripeness

Forms of ripeness

pluralripenesses

Origin of ripeness

From Middle English ripenesse, rypenesse, rijpnesse, from Old English rīpness, equivalent to ripe + -ness.

Questions about ripeness

What does ripeness mean?
Ripeness means the characteristic of being ripe.
What is ripeness in Hindi?
Ripeness in Hindi is परिपक्वता (paripakvatā). See Ripeness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ripeness?
Ripeness is a noun.
What is the plural of ripeness?
The plural of ripeness is ripenesses.

Words near ripeness in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ripeness (page history and authors); परिपक्वता (Hindi) (page history and authors); ripeness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ripeness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); পরিণতি (Bengali) (page history and authors); પાક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); परिणाम (Sanskrit) (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.

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