Word Meanings - MATURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how

Additional info about word: MATURE

1. Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age Pope. 2. Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan. This lies glowing, . . . and is almost mature for the violent breaking out. Shak. 3. Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years. 4. Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration. Syn. -- Ripe; perfect; completed; prepared; digested; ready. -- Mature, Ripe. Both words describe fullness of growth. Mature brings to view the progressiveness of the process; ripe indicates the result. We speak of a thing as mature when thinking of the successive stayes through which it has passed; as ripe, when our attention is directed merely to its state. A mature judgment; mature consideration; ripe fruit; a ripe scholar.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MATURE)

• Elaborate
• Execute
• forge
• prepare
• concoct
• mature
• manly
• Bold
• courageous
• generous
• open
• chivalrous
• frank
• firm
• noble
• stately
• fine
• masculine
• brave
• fearless
• hardy
• vigorous
• manlike
• manful
• dignified
• Mellow
• Ripe
• rich
• full-flavored
• jovial
• soft
• Pave
• Prepare
• facilitate
• smooth
• expedite
• adapt
• fit
• arrange
• dispose
• qualify
• Perfect
• Consummate
• complete
• full
• indeficient
• immaculate
• absolute
• faultless
• impeccable
• infallible
• unblemished
• blameless
• unexceptionable
• ripe

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MATURE)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to MATURE)

• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• JOVIALITY
  The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• MATURENESS
  The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• JOVIALTY
  Joviality. Barrow.
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• ABSOLUTENESS
  The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• MELLOWY
  Soft; unctuous. Drayton.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• VIGOROUS
  1. Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant. Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, vigorous and strong. Waller. 2. Exhibiting strength, either
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
• LIMATURE
  1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.