1. ripe - Noun
2. ripe - Adjective
3. ripe - Verb
5. ripe - Adjective Satellite
Intoxicated.
The bank of a river.
Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
To ripen; to grow ripe.
To mature; to ripen.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. Che Guevara
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. Henry Miller
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. James Henry Breasted
When the apple is ripe it will fall. Irish Proverb
Bitter fruit will fall before the ripe. Italian Proverb
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet. Sudanese Proverb