<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.</li><li>resembling such fruit, as in ruddiness and fullness: ripe, red lips.</li><li>advanced to the point of being in the best condition for use, as cheese or beer.</li><li>fully grown or developed, as animals when ready to be killed and used for food.</li><li>arrived at the highest or a high point of development or excellence; mature.</li><li>of mature judgment or knowledge: ripe scholars; a ripe mind.</li><li>characterized by full development of body or mind: of ripe years.</li><li>(of time) advanced: a ripe old age.</li><li>(of ideas, plans, etc.) ready for action, execution, etc.</li><li>(of people) fully prepared or ready to do or undergo something: He was ripe for a change in jobs.</li><li>fully or sufficiently advanced; ready enough; auspicious: The time is ripe for a new foreign policy.</li><li>ready for some operation or process: a ripe abscess.</li><li>Archaic. drunk: reeling ripe.</li></ul>