ripe

1. (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.Examples: "ripe grain"; "ripe apples"; "So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap."

2. (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.Examples: "ripe cheese"; "ripe wine"

3. (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.Examples: "He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one."; "And so may Place retain us still, ⁠And he the much-beloved again, ⁠A lord of large experience, train To riper growth the mind and will: […]"; "She was a feature of that piety, but even at the ripe stage of acquaintance in which they occasionally arranged to meet at a concert or to go together to an exhibition she was not a feature of anything else."Synonyms: consummatefiguratively

4. (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge. (said of sores, tumors, etc.)archaic

5. (of a person, colloquial) Ready, willing, eager.Examples: "I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air!"colloquial

6. (obsolete) Intoxicated.Examples: "Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?"Synonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunkenobsolete