mature
Definition of mature:
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: verb
To ripen: to bring to perfection: to prepare for use.
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part of speech: adjective
Ripe; arrived at fulness or completion; well digested and ready for execution, as a scheme.
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
To promote ripeness; to advance toward ripeness or perfection; to become ripe.
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part of speech: adjective
Grown to its full size: perfected: ripe: ( med.) come to suppuration: fully digested, as a plan.
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Common misspellings:
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- matuare (2.4%)
- matre (2.4%)
- maure (1.2%)
- amature (1.2%)
- muture (36.6%)
- mataure (2.4%)
- matuer (6.1%)
- matture (14.6%)
- matur (2.4%)
- matzure (2.4%)
- machure (4.9%)
- mautre (6.1%)
- matue (7.3%)
- matrue (2.4%)
- marure (2.4%)
- maturem (2.4%)
- musture (2.4%)
Usage examples for mature:
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And, as she grew up towards womanhood and he towards mature boyhood, the beauty and depth of his respectful and unselfish love made themselves felt by all who could value and understand them, and among these was Harry.
"Amos Huntingdon" – T.P. Wilson -
At the first view of the matter, it should appear that the other speculation might have been hit on by any man with a nose to his face; but, on more mature consideration, one is induced to think that its author was a person of some learning, and well read in ancient history.
"Paris As It Was and As It Is" – Francis W. Blagdon -
Twenty years later this promising beginning bore fruit in the mature and reasoned pleading of Condorcet for the reform of women's education.
"Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle" – H. N. Brailsford -
He had the same complexion, the same cast of countenance, with the same smile, only in a more mature and masculine form.
"The Path of Duty, and Other Stories" – H. S. Caswell
