mature
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro.
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /məˈtjʊə/, /məˈtʃʊə/, /məˈtʃɔː/
- (US) IPA(key): /məˈtʃʊ(ə)ɹ/, /məˈtʃɝ/, /məˈt(j)ʊəɹ/
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
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.
- Profound; careful.
- The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
- (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
AntonymsEdit
- (grown up): childish, immature
- (profound): superficial
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
fully developed
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profound; careful
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VerbEdit
mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
- (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (transitive) To make something mature.
- 2009, Hugh Findlay, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits
- 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.
- 2009, Hugh Findlay, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due
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
Derived termsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.
PronunciationEdit
PronunciationEdit
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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
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
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
mature