Brought to perfection in growth or to the best state; mature; fit for use; as ripe fruit; ripe corn.

Advanced to perfection; matured; as ripe judgment, or ripe in judgment.

Finished; consummate; as a ripe scholar.

Brought to the point of taking effect; matured; ready; prepared; as things just ripe for war.

Fully qualified by improvement; prepared; as a student ripe for the university; a saint ripe for heaven.

Resembling the ripeness of fruit; as a ripe lip.

Complete; proper for use. When time is ripe.

Maturated; suppurated; as an abscess or tumor.

To ripen; to grow ripe; to be matured.

To mature; to ripen.