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ultraripe

ultraripe adjective: extremely ripe.

Adjective

ultraripe (comparative more ultraripe, superlative most ultraripe)

  1. Extremely ripe.
    • Of all the dishes, this one benefits the most from using an ultraripe tomato, still warm from the farmers’ market.2007 August 22, Melissa Clark, “So Many Tomatoes to Stuff in a Week”, in New York Times
    • The ultraripe grapes are usually dried in the sun for a few days so they can raisin and their sugars can be concentrated before they are crushed and pressed.2010, Michael Gibson, The Sommelier Prep Course, page 214

Forms of ultraripe

comparativemore ultraripe
superlativemost ultraripe

Origin of ultraripe

From ultra- + ripe.

Questions about ultraripe

What does ultraripe mean?
Ultraripe means extremely ripe.
What part of speech is ultraripe?
Ultraripe is an adjective.

Words near ultraripe in the dictionary

  1. ultraright
  2. ultrarightism
  3. ultrarightist
  4. ultrarightists
  5. ultrarights
  6. ultraripe
  7. ultrarisky
  8. ultraritualistic
  9. ultraromantic
  10. ultraromanticism
  11. ultraroyalism

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