Adjective ripe has 5 senses
  1. ripe, mature - fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodies mature wines"
    Antonyms: green, unripe, unripened, immature, unaged
  2. ripe - fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for revolution"
    Antonym:
    unready (indirect, via ready)
  3. good, right, ripe - most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes"
    Antonym: inopportune (indirect, via opportune)
  4. ripe - at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; "a ripe mind"
    Antonym:
    immature (indirect, via mature)
  5. advanced, ripe - far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"
    Antonym: early (indirect, via middle, late)
    Antonym: middle (indirect, via late, early)
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