<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms</li><li>having a rudely critical tone or manner: snarky humor</li><li>fully developed in body or mind, as a person</li><li>pertaining to an adult who is middle-aged or older</li><li>characteristic of full development: a mature appearance; fruit with a mature softness</li><li>completed, perfected, or elaborated in full by the mind: mature plans</li><li>having reached the limit of its time; having become payable or due</li><li>having attained definitive form or function, as by maturation of an epithelium from a basal layer</li><li>exhibiting the stage of maximum topographical diversity, as in the cycle of erosion of a land surface</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to make mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese</li><li>to bring to full development</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to become mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese</li><li>to come to full development</li></ul>