mature
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /məˈtjʊə/, /məˈtʃʊə/, /məˈtʃɔː/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /məˈtʃʊ(ə)ɹ/, /məˈtʃɝ/, /məˈt(j)ʊəɹ/
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”).
AdjectiveEdit
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.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- a mature plan
- Profound; careful.
- The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
- (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
- mature content
SynonymsEdit
- (grown up in terms of physical appearance): adult, grown; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
- (grown up in terms of behaviour or thinking): adultish, grown up; see also Thesaurus:mature
- (suitable for adults only): adult; see also Thesaurus:for adults
AntonymsEdit
- (grown up): childish, immature
- (profound): superficial
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
fully developed
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profound; careful
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Etymology 2Edit
From French maturer (“to mature”), from Latin mātūrō.
VerbEdit
mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
- 1670, Evelyn, John, chapter 35, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-trees, London, page 246:
- […] Trees […] have alwayes Fruit upon them, ripe, or preparing to mature;
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development or completion.
- 1667, Milton, John, Paradise Lost[2], book 1, lines 659-660:
- […] But these thoughts
Full Counsel must mature:
- 1768, Hoole, John, Cyrus: A Tragedy[3], act I, London: T. Davies, page 12:
- […] much it now
Imports they should be still deceiv’d, till time
Matures our enterprize;
- 1853, Gaskell, Elizabeth, Cranford, New York: Harper, Chapter 13, p. 262,[4]:
- […] I did not interrupt her, I was so busy maturing a plan I had had in my mind for some days […]
- 1953, Bellow, Saul, chapter 8, in The Adventures of Augie March[5], New York: Viking, page 143:
- […] the long clean groove of her upper lip was ready to go into motion, as if she were going to break her silence with something momentous and long-matured; explain love to me, perhaps.
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- 1782, Cowper, William, “Charity”, in Poems[6], London: J. Johnson, page 202:
- […] a ship well freighted with the stores
The sun matures on India’s spicy shores,
- 2009, Findlay, Hugh, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits[7]:
- There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed.
- Synonym: ripen
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- Synonyms: age, develop, grow up; see also Thesaurus:to age
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- 1776, Cowley, Hannah, The Runaway[8], London: Prologue:
- Then Tom shall have his kite, and Fan new dollies,
Till time matures them for important follies.
- 1970, Davies, Robertson, chapter 2, in Fifth Business[9], part 6, Toronto: Macmillan, page 103:
- […] what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured me;
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:make older
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to become mature; to ripen
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to gain experience or wisdom with age
to reach the date when payment is due
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ma.tyʁ/
- Homophones: maturent, matures
AdjectiveEdit
mature (plural matures)
- (of a person) mature
VerbEdit
mature
- first-person singular present indicative of maturer
- third-person singular present indicative of maturer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
- second-person singular imperative of maturer
Further readingEdit
- “mature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ure
AdjectiveEdit
mature f pl
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mātūre
ReferencesEdit
- mature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mature in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
mature
- Alternative form of matere
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
mature