riper

Adjective

ripe (comparative riper, superlative ripest)

1. Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
   • ripe grain
2. Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
   • ripe cheese
3. (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
   • He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth

   Synonyms:

   consummate

4. (archaic) Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.
5. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
   • while things were just ripe for a war1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
6. (colloquial) Of a person, ready, willing, eager.
   • I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air!1927, Bartlett Cormack, The Racket (play)

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