Open English Wordnet
Adjectives
(a)ripe, maturefully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used“ripe peaches”,
“full-bodied mature wines” (s)ripefully prepared or eager“the colonists were ripe for revolution” (s)good, right, ripemost suitable or right for a particular purpose“a good time to plant tomatoes”,
“the right time to act”,
“the time is ripe for great sociological changes” (s)ripeat the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge“a ripe mind” (s)advanced, ripefar along in time“a man of advanced age”,
“advanced in years”,
“a ripe old age”,
“the ripe age of 90”