From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mature \Ma*ture"\, adjective [Compar. {Maturer}; superl. {Maturest}.] [L. maturus; prob. akin to E. matin.]
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 accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age? --Pope.
2. Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
This lies glowing, . . . and is almost mature for the violent breaking out. --Shak.
3. Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
4. Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
Syn: Ripe; perfect; completed; prepared; digested; ready.
Usage: {Mature}, {Ripe}. Both words describe fullness of growth. Mature brings to view the progressiveness of the process; ripe indicates the result. We speak of a thing as mature when thinking of the successive stayes through which it has passed; as ripe, when our attention is directed merely to its state. A mature judgment; mature consideration; ripe fruit; a ripe scholar.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mature \Ma*ture"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Matured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Maturing}.] [See {Maturate}, {Mature}.] To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans. --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mature \Ma*ture"\, verb (used without an object)
1. To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
2. Hence, to become due, as a note.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
developed \developed\ adjective
1. being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; as, the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook; the state's well-developed industries. Oppositre of {undeveloped}. [Narrower terms: {formulated}; {mature}] [WordNet 1.5]
2. made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads; -- of real estate. new houses are springing up on the developed tract of land near the river
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: characteristic of maturity; "mature for her age" [ant: {immature}]
2: fully considered and perfected; "mature plans" [syn: {matured}]
3: having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell" [ant: {immature}]
4: fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodies mature wines" [syn: {ripe}] [ant: {green}]
5: (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination [syn: {fledged}] [ant: {unfledged}]
verb
1: develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: {maturate}, {grow}]
2: develop and work out fully in one's mind; "I need to mature my thoughts"
3: become due for repayment; "These bonds mature in 2005"
4: cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" [syn: {ripen}]
5: grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: {senesce}, {age}, {get on}, {maturate}]
6: cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules" [syn: {suppurate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
282 Moby Thesaurus words for "mature": 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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