ripe

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɹaɪp/    美 /ɹaɪp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
    — When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.
  2. The bank of a river.
动词 v.
  1. To ripen or mature. intransitive
    — […] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […]
  2. To search; to rummage. obsolete,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
    — ripe grain
  2. Rife not-comparable,proscribed
    — The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes.
  3. Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
    — ripe cheese
  4. Having attained its full development; mature; perfected. figuratively
    — He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
  5. Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge. archaic
  6. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
    — while things were just ripe for a war
  7. Of a person, ready, willing, eager. colloquial
    — I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air!
  8. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
    — Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.
  9. Intoxicated. obsolete
    — Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?
  10. Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
    — Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe, however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.
  11. Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
    — His Majesty [a purple emperor butterfly] has rather peculiar tastes for so elegant a being. You just hang a piece of decidedly ripe meat anywhere near.

词形变化

riper comparative ripest superlative rype alternative,obsolete ripes plural rype alternative,obsolete ripes present,singular,third-person riping participle,present riped participle,past riped past rype alternative,obsolete ripes plural ripes present,singular,third-person riping participle,present riped participle,past riped past

词汇关系

反义词
unripe
衍生词
drop-ripe firstripe force-ripe like a ripe plum market-ripe nonripe overripe rare-ripe ripe for the picking ripe for the plucking ripeish ripely ripen ripeness ripe old age rope-ripe time is ripe ultraripe underripe under-ripe

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.
词源 2
From Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.
词源 3
An alteration of rife.
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