ripe

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ripe [ripe riper ripest] BrE [raɪp] NAmE [raɪp] adjective (riper, rip·est)
1. (of fruit or crops)fully grown and ready to be eaten
•Pick the tomatoes before they get too ripe.
Opp: ↑unripe
2. (of cheese or wine)having a flavour that has fully developed
Syn: ↑mature
3. (of a smell)strong and unpleasant
4. ~ (for sth) ready or suitable for sth to happen
•This land is ripe for development.
•The conditions were ripe for social change.
•Reforms were promised when the time was ripe.
Idiom: ripe old age
Derived Word: ↑ripeness

Word Origin:
Old English rīpe, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch rijp and German reif.

Example Bank:
•Some of the apples were not quite ripe.
•The army has withdrawn, leaving the country ripe for the picking.
•The crops were just about ripe.
•a really ripe strawberry

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  advanced, good, right, ripe(p), mature
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  green, unripe, unripened, immature