'Mature' definitions:
Definition of 'mature'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Characteristic of maturity; "mature for her age" [ant: immature]
adjective
Fully considered and perfected; "mature plans" [syn: mature, matured]
adjective
Having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell" [ant: immature]
adjective
Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines" [syn: ripe, mature] [ant: green, immature, unripe, unripened]
adjective
(of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination [syn: fledged, mature] [ant: immature, unfledged]
verb
Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: mature, maturate, grow]
verb
Develop and work out fully in one's mind; "I need to mature my thoughts"
verb
Become due for repayment; "These bonds mature in 2005"
verb
Cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" [syn: ripen, mature]
verb
Grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day-- what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate]
verb
Cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules" [syn: suppurate, mature]
Definition of 'Mature'
From: GCIDE
- Mature \Ma*ture"\, a. [Compar. Maturer; superl. Maturest.] [L. maturus; prob. akin to E. matin.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe. [1913 Webster]
- Now is love mature in ear. --Tennison. [1913 Webster]
- How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age? --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan. [1913 Webster]
- This lies glowing, . . . and is almost mature for the violent breaking out. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Ripe; perfect; completed; prepared; digested; ready.
- Usage: Mature, Ripe. Both words describe fullness of growth. Mature brings to view the progressiveness of the process; ripe indicates the result. We speak of a thing as mature when thinking of the successive stayes through which it has passed; as ripe, when our attention is directed merely to its state. A mature judgment; mature consideration; ripe fruit; a ripe scholar. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mature'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Mature'
From: GCIDE
- Mature \Ma*ture"\, v. i.
- 1. To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, to become due, as a note. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'mature'
From: GCIDE
- developed \developed\ adj.
- 1. being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; as, the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook; the state's well-developed industries. Oppositre of undeveloped. [Narrower terms: formulated; mature] [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads; -- of real estate. new houses are springing up on the developed tract of land near the river
- Syn: improved. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'mature'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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