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Mature   /mətʃˈʊr/  /mətjˈʊr/   Listen
Mature

adjective
(compar. maturer; superl. maturest)
1.
Characteristic of maturity.  Antonym: immature.
2.
Fully considered and perfected.  Synonym: matured.
3.
Having reached full natural growth or development.  Antonym: immature.
4.
Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.  Synonym: ripe.  "Full-bodied mature wines"  Antonym: green.
5.
(of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination.  Synonym: fledged.  Antonym: unfledged.
verb
(past & past part. matured; pres. part. maturing)
1.
Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation.  Synonyms: grow, maturate.  "The child grew fast"
2.
Develop and work out fully in one's mind.
3.
Become due for repayment.
4.
Cause to ripen or develop fully.  Synonym: ripen.  "Age matures a good wine"
5.
Grow old or older.  Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce.  "We age every day--what a depressing thought!" , "Young men senesce"
6.
Cause to ripen and discharge pus.  Synonym: suppurate.



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"Mature" Quotes from Famous Books



... understood anything of what I had got by heart, I reply—"Never mind, I understand it all now, and believe that no one ever yet got Lilly's Latin Grammar by heart when young, who repented of the feat at a mature age". ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... have the pleasures of the young and mature become so definitely separated as in the modern city. The public dance halls filled with frivolous and irresponsible young people in a feverish search for pleasure, are but a sorry substitute for ...
— The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets • Jane Addams
... and warm, and bright and mellow, and all the contradictions that make October the month of the year's mature perfection; that middle age of the seasons, when the blossoms of folly are past, and the fruits of the will are ripened, and the chill of bare winter ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
... the six novels which represent most truly the striving, persistent idealism of the mature Wells. In these books he has come to the mastery of his own technique—so far as a man may ever master it. He admits that there remain inexpressible visions, he is apt at times to be overtaken by his own mannerisms (a fault that in no way affects ...
— H. G. Wells • J. D. Beresford
... under the forecastle, he signed with his hand that all his people should remain without, and they did so with the greatest haste and respect in the world, and all seated themselves on the deck, except two men of mature age whom I took to be his counsellors and governors, and who came and seated themselves at his feet: and of the viands which I placed before him he took of each one as much as may be taken for a salutation, and then he sent the rest to his people and ...
— Christopher Columbus, Complete • Filson Young


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