Word Study
ripened
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective ripened has 1 sense
- ripened(s = adj.all) aged - of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable); "mature well-aged cheeses"
THESAURUS
ripened
adult, archetypical, blase, classic, consummate, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, developed, exemplary, experienced, expert, finished, full-blown, fully developed, knowing, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, mellow, model, not born yesterday, old, perfected, polished, practiced, proficient, quintessential, refined, ripe, sagacious, seasoned, sophisticated, tried, tried and true, veteran, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise
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