ripe

adjective11

1. •
   Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.

   • ripe apples
2. •
   Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
3. •
   (figurative) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.

   • He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one. — 1623
4. •
   Ready for action or effect; prepared.

   • while things were just ripe for a war — 1705
5. •
   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. — 2004
6. •
   (informal) Of a person, ready, willing, eager.

   • I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air! — 1927
7. •
   (nonstandard) Rife

   • The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes. — 2022
8. •
   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. — 1923
9. •
   Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.

   • Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip. — 1603
10. •
    (no longer used) Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.
11. •
    (no longer used) Intoxicated.

    • Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle? — 1610

noun2

1. •
   A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
2. •
   The bank of a river.

verb2

1. •
   To ripen or mature.

   • […] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […] — 1596
2. •
   (no longer used) To search; to rummage.

noun1

1. •
   A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E).