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mature
/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/
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What does mature mean?
adjective
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- Profound; careful.
More meanings (9)
adjective
- Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
- (obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
verb
- To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
- To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- To make (someone) mature.
- To reach the date when payment is due.
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IPA pronunciation
/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/
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In spite of his backwardness Robert had a fund of remarkably accurate scientific and other information which a mature person might envy.
The reason is that to omit it is to deprive him of one important element in the full appreciation of mature literature.
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My father's object was to render each and all of his children-- whether boys or girls--independent on their arrival at mature years.
The gramma grass of the and region grows quickly and turns gray instead of brown, as grasses usually do when they mature.
The reason for this becomes obvious if we bring together mature eggs and equally mature and active sperm of a different family.