Word Meanings - OVERRIPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Matured to excess. Milton.

Related words: (words related to OVERRIPE)

• MATURENESS
  The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
• MATURITY
  1. The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan. 2. Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note,
• MATURATIVE
  Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.
• MATURANT
  A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.
• MATURING
  Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.
• MATURESCENT
  Approaching maturity.
• MATURER
  One who brings to maturity.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MATURE
  1. Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• MATURELY
  1. In a mature manner; with ripeness; completely. 2. With caution; deliberately. Dryden. 3. Early; soon. Bentley.
• MATURATE
  1. To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen. A tree may be maturated artificially. Fuller. 2. To promote the perfect suppuration of .
• MATURATION
  The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.
• HEMATURIA
  Passage of urine mingled with blood.
• LIMATURE
  1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.
• THAUMATURGICS
  Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.
• RING ARMATURE
  An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
• ACCLIMATURE
  The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. Caldwell.
• THAUMATURGE
  A magician; a wonder worker. Lowell.
• DISARMATURE
  The act of divesting of armature.
• DRAMATURGY
  The art of dramatic composition and representation.
• IMMATURITY
  The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness. When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity. Caird.
• DRAMATURGIC
  Relating to dramaturgy.
• IMMATURED
  Immature.
• IMMATURE
  1. Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans. "An ill-measured and immature counsel." Bacon. 2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.