ripe
adjective
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.
ripeness
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a word derived from
ripe.
Example Sentences
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Which means it would be subject to a similar ripeness argument and presumably fail at the Supreme Court.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Its tone suggests sumptuous ripeness from the top of its range to bottom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Another prototype is an autonomous drone that uses vision algorithms to detect ripeness and grippers to pick the fruit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Tesco is trialling avocado ripeness scanners and fans of the fruit are divided over whether it is a shopping hack or if a squeeze test should suffice.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
He went through the cans again one by one, holding them in his hand and squeezing them like a man checking for ripeness at a fruitstand.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
