Antonyms for ripeness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : rahyp |
| Phonetic Transcription : raɪp |
- beginning
- childhood
- commencement
- damage
- decline
- deficiency
- difficulty
- disappointment
- discouragement
- dishonor
- dissatisfaction
- downfall
- dullness
- failure
- flaw
- frustration
- ignorance
- imperfection
- impotence
- inability
- incompetence
- incompleteness
- inferiority
- introduction
- loss
- minority
- need
- slowing
- slowness
- sorrow
- start
- stoppage
- stupidity
- subservience
- unfulfillment
- unhappiness
- unpreparedness
- uselessness
- want
- worthlessness
- youth
Definition of ripeness
Origin :- Old English ripe "ready for reaping, fit for eating, mature," from West Germanic *ripijaz (cf. Old Saxon ripi, Middle Dutch ripe, Dutch rijp, Old High German rifi, German reif); related to Old English repan "to reap" (see reap). Meaning "ready for some action or effect" is from 1590s. Related: Ripely; ripeness.
- As in maturity : noun adulthood, full growth
- As in perfection : noun achievement, completeness
- As in readiness : noun skill; eagerness
- As in fruition : noun achievement, maturation
- I fear that the greenness of our argument will ludicrously contrast with the ripeness of our ages.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- The birds bide the time when a blush upon the fruit betrays its ripeness.
- Extract from : « Little Masterpieces of Science: » by Various
- This stage of ripeness is determined by means of a must-scale or saccharometer.
- Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
- To her service he had dedicated the lees of his life and the ripeness of his knowledge.
- Extract from : « The God of Love » by Justin Huntly McCarthy
- Before the blade got fairly into them, they split of their own ripeness, with a delicious sound.
- Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather
- Midsummer warmth and ripeness brooded in the verdure of field and forest.
- Extract from : « Moods » by Louisa May Alcott
- He died at his home on the 26th of July, 1826, in the ripeness of years and of honors.
- Extract from : « The Battle of New Orleans » by Zachary F. Smith
- A ripeness and sweetness we have never before tasted, even in Oxford.
- Extract from : « In to the Yukon » by William Seymour Edwards
- The ripeness of the milk can also be determined by the use of the rennet test.
- Extract from : « The Book of Cheese » by Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
- There was ripeness in the very tones that put you in mind of the fruit itself.
- Extract from : « Fashion and Famine » by Ann S. Stephens
Synonyms for ripeness
- ability
- accomplishment
- achieving
- acme
- actualization
- address
- adroitness
- advancement
- alacrity
- aptness
- arete
- attainment
- capability
- civilization
- completion
- consummation
- crown
- cultivation
- deftness
- development
- dexterity
- dispatch
- ease
- eloquence
- ending
- enjoyment
- entireness
- evolution
- exactness
- excellence
- excellency
- expedience
- expedition
- experience
- exquisiteness
- facility
- faultlessness
- finish
- finishing
- fitness
- fluency
- fulfillment
- full bloom
- fullness
- good will
- gratification
- handiness
- ideal
- idealism
- impeccability
- inclination
- integrity
- keenness
- majority
- manhood
- materialization
- maturation
- matureness
- maturescence
- maturity
- mellowness
- mentality
- merit
- paragon
- perfection
- perfectness
- phoenix
- pleasure
- postpubescence
- precision
- preparation
- preparedness
- prime
- prime of life
- promptitude
- promptness
- prowess
- purity
- quality
- quickness
- rapidity
- readiness
- realization
- ripeness
- satisfaction
- sleight
- sophistication
- sublimity
- success
- superiority
- supremacy
- transcendence
- virtue
- volubility
- wholeness
- willingness
- wisdom
- womanhood
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