Mature
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English
Adjective
Mature (comparative maturer or more Mature, superlative maturest or most Mature)
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- She is quite mature for her age.
- Profound; careful.
- The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
Antonyms
- (grown up): childish, immature
- (profound): superficial
Verb
Mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)
- To become mature; to ripen.
- To gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (finance) To reach the date when payment is due
Adverbs for Mature
suddenly; undeniably; admirably; sensibly;sagaciously; sturdily; responsibly; unexpectedly; remarkably; curiously; strangely; surprisingly; reasonably; sufficiently; presumably; scarcely; thoroughly; progressively strikingly; completely; fully; obviously.
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
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Related terms
Italian
Adjective
mature pl.
- feminine form of maturo
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
mātūre
- vocative masculine singular of mātūrus
