mature

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
2. Brought to a state of complete readiness.
3. Profound; careful.
4. (obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
5. Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.

Verb

1. To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
2. To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
3. To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
4. To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
5. To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
6. To make (someone) mature.
7. To reach the date when payment is due.

Concepts

mûr

mûrir

murir

fait

maturité

arriver à échéance

échoir

mûre

faire mûrir

développer

adulte

🧑

fleurir

🌸

grandir

vieillir

mature

incomber

jeunes

crûe

à

à

s'affiner

âge

devenir adulte

fermenter

former

fruit

pousser

produire

se faire

suppurer

vert

accomplie

ancêtres

échu

evolué

Synonymes

ripe

ripen

adult

🧑

mellow

grow up

grow

full-grown

develop

age

maturate

experienced

grow older

developed

matured

grown

due

expire

grown-up

grown up

become ripe

fully developed

full-blown

full-fledged

careful

old

🧓

become adult

perfect

get ripe

perfected

senesce

be in common use

grow big

suppurate

fall due

cure

get on

grow old

full-brown

get along

of age

be of age

hard

dry

seasoned

sedate

ferment

fledged

cook

🧑‍🍳

sophisticated

flower

🌸

come to sound natural

maturity

nice

olden

older

on the nose

overgrown

painstaking

patient

payable

precise

profound

punctilious

recollective

retentive

rip

ripened

season

sensible

sharp

staid

strengthen

strict

studious

subtle

tall

tender

terminate

thorough

unripe

venerable

veteran

virile

well-balanced

well-done

wise

bear fruit

become hard

dried-out

old person

take shape

well-adjusted

becoming precocious

become grown-up

reach puberty

grow ripe

not ripe

fully grown

make ripe

ovedue

grow wiser

quite ripe

necessary to be paid

time of maturity

become big

become mature

fully matured

old-looking

mature period

ripening date

ripening stage

good

👍

nonjuvenile

whole

accurate

aging

become

become dry

begin

boil

bold

break out

cast

cautious

circumspect

complete

concentrated

cooked

deliberate

delicate

dignified

discerning

discriminating

done

dress

👗

elaborated

entire

exact

expand

expert

extract

fall

fall in

form

formed

frugal

full

fully fledged

get old

grave

🪦

great

green

grownup

heedful

important

judicial

keen

lapsed

large

maturity date

menstruate

middleaged

middle-aged

neat

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/məˈtjʊə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From late Middle English mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”).