Definitions for RIPE

RIPE ripe

Spelling: [rahyp]
IPA: /raɪp/

Ripe is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in RIPE (eipr).

Definitions for RIPE

adjective

  1. 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.
  2. resembling such fruit, as in ruddiness and fullness:
  3. advanced to the point of being in the best condition for use, as cheese or beer.
  4. fully grown or developed, as animals when ready to be killed and used for food.
  5. arrived at the highest or a high point of development or excellence; mature.
  6. of mature judgment or knowledge:
  7. characterized by full development of body or mind:
  8. (of time) advanced:
  9. (of ideas, plans, etc.) ready for action, execution, etc.
  10. (of people) fully prepared or ready to do or undergo something:
  11. fully or sufficiently advanced; ready enough; auspicious:
  12. ready for some operation or process:
  13. Archaic. drunk:

Origin of RIPE

before 900; Middle English; Old English rīpe; cognate with Dutch rijp, German reif; akin to Old English ripan to reap

Examples for RIPE

The Judge is currently set for an October 10 release date, a ripe calendar spot for a potential Oscar run.

In 1968, at the ripe age of 14, I was at the Miami convention carrying my Rockefeller sign on the convention floor.

Young people are ripe for love long before they are ripe for religion.

The Ficus Platypoda was also found here, loaded with ripe fruit.

They had often met before, but it had been casually, and the hour had not been ripe.

It looks as if the Prince were ripe for worse than mischief.

Police sources informed  Reforma that both action are considered “high risk” and ripe for “anarchist infiltration.”

The time is ripe—and right—for action to begin that would divest Russia of the World Cup and award it to another nation.

The Bachelor had debuted a year earlier, and audiences were ripe for a show that punctured its saccharine fairy-tale storyline.

Go into the forest and wait until his message is ripe for you.'

Word Value for RIPE
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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