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Mature Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Mature?
[adj] fully considered and perfected; "mature plans"
[adj] (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination [adj] having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell" [adj] characteristic of maturity; "mature for her age" [adj] fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodies mature wines" [v] cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules" [v] grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!" [v] cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" [v] develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [v] become due for repayment; "These bonds mature in 2005" [v] develop and work out fully in one's mind; "I need to mature my thoughts" Synonyms | Synonyms for Mature: abloom | adult | age | aged | autumnal | big | developed | efflorescent | fledged | fledgeling(a) | fledgling(a) | flowering | fruiting | full-blown | full-fledged | full-grown | fully fledged | fully grown | get on | grow | grown | grownup | headed | marriageable | maturate | matured | mellow | mellowed | nubile | overblown | overripe | prime | ripe | ripen | ripened | suppurate Related Terms | Find terms related to Mature: accomplish | accrue | adult | advance | age | aged | all ready | all set | archetypical | armed | armed and ready | assemble | attain majority | back | bear fruit | beautify | beget | big | blase | bloom | blooming | blossom | blossoming | blow | booted and spurred | breed | brew | briefed | bring forth | bring into being | bring to completion | bring to fruition | bring to maturity | budding | build | burgeon | burgeoning | call into being | cast | classic | coached | cocked | coin | come of age | come to fruition | come to maturity | complete | compose | compound | conceive | concoct | construct | consummate | consummated | contrive | cook up | cosmopolitan | cosmopolite | create | crescent | crown | culminate | cultivate | design | develop | developed | devise | discover | do to perfection | dream up | due | eke out | elaborate | embellish | engender | entire | equipped | erect | evolute | evolve | exemplary | experienced | expert | extrude | fabricate | fall due | familiarized | fashion | fill in | fill out | finish | finished | fledge | florescent | flourish | flourishing | flower | flowering | form | formulate | frame | fudge together | fulfill | full | full-blown | full-fledged | full-grown | full-scale | fully developed | gather | generate | germinate | get up | give being to | give rise to | global | good and ready | groomed | grow | grow up | growing | grown | grown up | grown-up | hatch | hypertrophied | hypertrophy | improve | improvise | in arms | in arrear | in arrears | in battle array | in full bloom | in readiness | in the saddle | increase | indite | informed | intact | invent | knowing | knowledgeable | leave the nest | loaded | loaded for bear | make | make do with | make good | make up | manufacture | marriable | marriageable | masterful | masterly | maturate | maturated | matured | maturescent | mellow | mellowed | mint | mobilized | model | mold | mushroom | not born yesterday | nubile | of age | of marriageable age | old | on the mark | originate | outgrow | outstanding | overdevelop | overdeveloped | overdue | overgrow | overgrown | overtop | owed | owing | patch together | payable | perfect | perfected | piece out | piece together | plan | planned | polish | polished | practiced | prearranged | prefabricate | prepare | prepared | prepared and ready | prepped | primed | procreate | produce | proficient | progress | provided | psyched up | pullulate | put together | put up | quintessential | raise | reach its season | reach manhood | reach maturity | reach twenty-one | reach voting age | ready | ready for anything | rear | receivable | redeemable | refill | refine | refined | replenish | reproduce | ripe | ripen | ripened | round out | run up | sagacious | season | seasoned | set | set up | settle down | shape | shoot up | solid | sophisticated | spawn | spring up | sprout | sprout up | sprouting | strike out | temper | tempered | think out | think up | thrive | thriving | toga virilis | top off | total | tower | tried | tried and true | unabbreviated | uncut | undiminished | unexpurgated | unpaid | unsettled | up in arms | upshoot | upspear | upspring | upsprout | vegetate | veteran | vigilant | wax | well-prepared | whole | whomp up | worldly | worldly-wise | world-wise | write See Also | alter | change | develop | develop | dote | draw | explicate | find | find oneself | formulate | fossilise | fossilize | grow up | mature | old | turn Mature In Webster's Dictionary \Ma*ture"\, a. [Compar. {Maturer}; superl. {Maturest}.]
[L. maturus; prob. akin to E. matin.]
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.
Usage: {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.
\Ma*ture"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Matured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Maturing}.] [See {Maturate}, {Mature}.] To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans. --Bacon. \Ma*ture"\, v. i. 1. To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience. 2. Hence, to become due, as a note. |
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