mature
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /məˈtjʊə/, /məˈt͡ʃʊə/, /məˈt͡ʃɔː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/, /məˈt͡ʃɝ/, /məˈt(j)ʊəɹ/
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]From late Middle English mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”).
Adjective
[edit]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.
- The excellent mature eggplants grown in the garden plot are quickly being being picked up by family and friends.
- 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
Synonyms
[edit]- (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
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “grown up”): childish, immature
- (antonym(s) of “profound”): superficial
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English maturen, from Middle French maturer (“to mature”), from Latin mātūrō.
Verb
[edit]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, John Evelyn, chapter 35, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-trees[2], 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, John Milton, Paradise Lost[3], book 1, lines 659–660:
- […] But these thoughts
Full Counsel must mature:
- 1768, John Hoole, Cyrus: A Tragedy[4], London: T. Davies, act I, page 12:
- […] much it now
Imports they should be still deceiv’d, till time
Matures our enterprize;
- 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, New York: Harper, Chapter 13, p. 262,[5]:
- […] I did not interrupt her, I was so busy maturing a plan I had had in my mind for some days […]
- 1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 8, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC, 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, William Cowper, “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, Hugh Findlay, 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, Hannah Cowley, The Runaway[8], London: Prologue:
- Then Tom shall have his kite, and Fan new dollies,
Till time matures them for important follies.
- 1970, Robertson Davies, 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.
- When the bond matures, the full face value is payable to its bearer.
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ma.tyʁ/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file) - Homophones: maturent, matures
Adjective
[edit]mature (plural matures)
- (of a person) mature
Verb
[edit]mature
- inflection of maturer:
Further reading
[edit]- “mature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mature f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mātūre
Adverb
[edit]mātūrē (comparative mātūrius, superlative mātūrissimē)
References
[edit]- “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.
- mature - Latin is Simple Online Dictionary
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle French mature and its etymon Latin mātūrus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mature (rare, Late Middle English)
Descendants
[edit]- English: mature
References
[edit]- “mā̆tūre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]mature
- Alternative form of matere
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]mature
- Alternative form of maturen
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]mature
- inflection of maturar:
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