Dictionary Definition
mature adj
1 characteristic of maturity; "mature for her
age" [ant: immature]
2 fully considered and perfected; "mature plans"
[syn: matured]
3 having reached full natural growth or
development; "a mature cell" [ant: immature]
4 fully developed or matured and ready to be
eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodies mature wines" [syn:
ripe] [ant: green]
5 (of birds) having developed feathers or
plumage; often used in combination [syn: fledged] [ant: unfledged]
Verb
1 develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation;
"He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: maturate, grow]
2 develop and work out fully in one's mind; "I
need to mature my thoughts"
3 become due for repayment; "These bonds mature
in 2005"
4 cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun
ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" [syn: ripen]
5 grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we
age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"
[syn: senesce, age, get on, maturate]
6 cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil
suppurates the pustules" [syn: suppurate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
Translations
fully developed
- Czech: vyspělý, vyzrálý
- Finnish: kypsä
profound; careful
- Finnish: huolellinen, syvällinen
- ttbc Dutch: volwassen (1)
- ttbc French: mûr
- ttbc German: reif (1), reiflich (2)
- ttbc Italian: maturo (1,2)
- ttbc Polish: dojrzały (1)
- ttbc Portuguese: maduro (1, 2)
- ttbc Russian: зрeлый
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: abaich
- ttbc Spanish: maduro , madura
- ttbc Swedish: mogen (1)
Verb
Translations
to become mature; to ripen
- Finnish: kypsyä
- German: reifen
- Italian: maturare
- Portuguese: amadurecer
to gain experience or wisdom with age
- Finnish: kypsyä
Related terms
Italian
Adjective
mature pExtensive Definition
Mature can refer to the following meanings;
- Sexual maturity
- Mature is a character in the King of Fighters video game series.
- Mature 17+, a rating in the ESRB rating system
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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, world-wise,
worldly, worldly-wise,
write