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maturest |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mature \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.
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