mature
complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
ripe, as fruit, or fully aged, as cheese or wine.
fully developed in body or mind, as a person: She was a mature woman who took her family responsibilities seriously.
noting or pertaining to an adult who is middle-aged or older (used euphemistically): discrimination against mature applicants.
pertaining to or characteristic of full development: a mature appearance; fruit with a mature softness.
completed, perfected, or elaborated in full by the mind: mature plans.
(of an industry, technology, market, etc.) no longer developing or expanding; having little or no potential for further growth or expansion; exhausted or saturated.
intended for or restricted to adults, especially by reason of explicit sexual content or the inclusion of violence or obscene language: mature movies.
composed of adults, considered as being less susceptible than minors to explicit sexual content, violence, or obscene language, as of a film or stage performance: for mature audiences only.
Finance. having reached the limit of its time; having become payable or due: a mature bond.
Medicine/Medical.
having attained definitive form or function, as by maturation of an epithelium from a basal layer.
having attained the end stage of a normal or abnormal biological process: a mature boil.
Geology. (of a landscape) exhibiting the stage of maximum topographical diversity, as in the cycle of erosion of a land surface.
to make mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.
to bring to full development: His hard experiences in the city matured him.
to complete or perfect: We matured our vision for the company.She matured her songwriting throughout her career.
to become mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.
to come to full development: Our plans have not yet matured.
Finance. to become due, as a note.
Origin of mature
1synonym study For mature
Other words for mature
Opposites for mature
Other words from mature
- ma·ture·ly, adverb
- ma·ture·ment, noun
- ma·ture·ness, noun
- ma·tur·er, noun
- half-ma·tured, adjective
- non·ma·ture, adjective
- non·ma·ture·ly, adverb
- non·ma·ture·ness, noun
- o·ver·ma·ture, adjective
- o·ver·ma·ture·ly, adverb
- o·ver·ma·ture·ness, noun
- self-ma·tured, adjective
- sem·i·ma·ture, adjective
- sem·i·ma·ture·ly, adverb
- sem·i·ma·ture·ness, noun
- un·ma·ture, adjective
- un·ma·ture·ly, adverb
- un·ma·tured, adjective
- un·ma·tur·ing, adjective
- well-ma·tured, adjective
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How to use mature in a sentence
The anger and rebellion had been comatose in these years of freedom, but the maturer brain was the more uneasy, at times appalled.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonIn the last year of the course, the compositions should be such as will test the maturer powers of the pupil.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterWe must seek "perfection," the profound maturity of the Christian, by a maturer and yet maturer insight into Him.
Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews | Handley C.G. MouleThe thing carries itself to my maturer and gratified sense as with every symptom of soundness, an insolence of health and joy.
The Awkward Age | Henry JamesMentally, she could hardly be maturer than the hero-worshipping girl in the procession of Miss Vincent's young seminarists.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for mature
/ (məˈtjʊə, -ˈtʃʊə) /
relatively advanced physically, mentally, emotionally, etc; grown-up
(of plans, theories, etc) fully considered; perfected
due or payable: a mature debenture
biology
fully developed or differentiated: a mature cell
fully grown; adult: a mature animal
(of fruit, wine, cheese, etc) ripe or fully aged
(of a river valley or land surface) in the middle stage of the cycle of erosion, characterized by meanders, maximum relief, etc: See also youthful (def. 4), old (def. 18)
to make or become mature
(intr) (of notes, bonds, etc) to become due for payment or repayment
Origin of mature
1Derived forms of mature
- maturely, adverb
- matureness, noun
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