overripe
Americanadjective
adjective
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(of food, cheese, etc) past the usual stage of being ready to eat or use
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overused or overly sentimental and emotional
his love songs are overripe ballads
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Example Sentences
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More than 125 years on, the newly reopened villa still feels overripe in the best way: rich, heady and slightly dangerous.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
In the morning, the sidewalk and pavement along Naomi Avenue are littered with crates of discarded melons, tomatoes and other overripe fruit, creating an ugly sight and putrid odor.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025
But you can apply the method to all sorts of odds and ends, making kraut from kale scraps or hot sauce from overripe chiles.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023
Workers on trucks tipped 120 tons of overripe tomatoes into the main street of the town for participants to throw.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023
I realized she had transported homemade food thousands of miles, all the way from Korea, and the stench of overripe kimchee shot up through the cardboard flaps and I nearly dropped the whole thing.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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