1. mature - Adjective
2. mature - Verb
4. mature - Adjective Satellite
Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
Hence, to become due, as a note.
Source: Webster's dictionaryImmature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. Anthony Trollope
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee
A young branch can be straightened, a mature one breaks. Filipino Proverb
Great talents mature late. Japanese Proverb
The immature rice stalk stands erect, while the mature stalk, heavy with grain, bends over. Cambodian Proverb