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1. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
   "ripe peaches";
   - mature
    
2. Fully prepared or eager
   "the colonists were ripe for revolution"
    
3. Most suitable or right for a particular purpose
   "the time is ripe for great sociological changes";
   - good, right
    
4. At the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
   "a ripe mind"
    
5. Far along in time
   "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90";
   - advanced
    
6. [informal] Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
   "a ripe joke";
   - crude, earthy, gross, vulgar, salty, coarse
    
7. [informal] Giving off a strong unpleasant smell
   - reeking, miasmatic

Derived forms: ripest, riper

See also: aged, ill-smelling, indecent, late, malodorous, malodourous [Brit, Cdn, non-standard], mature, mellow, mellowed, minging [Brit, informal], opportune, overripe, pongy [Brit, informal], ready, ripened, stinky [informal], unpleasant-smelling, whiffy [Brit, informal]

Antonym: unripened

Encyclopedia: Ripe, Marche