Crossword-Solution: RIPE 4 letters, 281 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Ripe n. The bank of a river.
Ripe superl. Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained
perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
Ripe superl. Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as,
ripe cheese; ripe wine.
Ripe superl. Having attained its full development; mature; perfected;
consummate.
Ripe superl. Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of
sores, tumors, etc.
Ripe superl. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
Ripe superl. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
Ripe superl. Intoxicated.
Ripe v. i. To ripen; to grow ripe.
Ripe v. t. To mature; to ripen.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
RIPE anagram PEIR, PERI, PIER, PIRE, PRIE

We have 281 clues for the answer “RIPE”

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"Cherry ___," Herrick poem 1 answer
"Cherry ___," poem by Herrick 1 answer
"Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ___" (Job 13:13) 1 answer
"Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ___" (Joel) 1 answer
A kind of old age. 1 answer
About to be picked 1 answer
Adequately soft, say 1 answer
Advanced, as old age 1 answer
All set to eat 1 answer
An adjective for old age 1 answer
As good as it's going to get? 1 answer
At fruition 1 answer
At its best 1 answer
At the fitting stage 1 answer
Auspicious, as time 1 answer
Badly in need of a wash 1 answer
Band ready for the big time 1 answer
Begging to be picked 1 answer
Between green and black, maybe 1 answer
Between green and black, say 1 answer
Certain olives 1 answer
Due for harvesting 1 answer
Entirely edible 1 answer
Far enough along 1 answer
Finally edible 1 answer
Finally good enough to eat 1 answer
Finished growing on the vine 1 answer
Fit for harvesting 1 answer
Fit for pickin' 1 answer
Fit for picking 1 answer
Fragrant, in a bad way 1 answer
Fully developed, as in a grove 1 answer
Fully prepared (for) 1 answer
Fully red, as a raspberry 1 answer
Good and juicy 1 answer
Good enough to eat, in a way 1 answer
Good to taste, or bad to smell 1 answer
Green's opposite 1 answer
Harvest ready 1 answer
Harvest-ready 1 answer
Harvestable 1 answer
Ready for picking 1 answer
Having sat in the locker room way too long 1 answer
Herrick's "Cherry ___" 1 answer
It may precede old age 1 answer
Juicy, maybe 1 answer
Juicy, perhaps 1 answer
Justiciable go-with 1 answer
Kind of old age. 1 answer
Like a black blackberry 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RIPE (5)

While thus he spake, th’ Angelic Squadron bright Turnd fierie red, sharpning in mooned hornes Thir Phalanx, and began to hemm him round With ported Spears, as thick as when a field Of _Ceres_ ripe for harvest waving bends Her bearded Grove of ears, which way the wind Swayes them; the careful Plowman doubting stands Least on the threshing floore his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe crop, said, “The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors to help me with my harvest.” One of the young Larks heard his speech and related it to his mother, inquiring of her to what place they should move for safety.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
She never saw him, but, with eyes closed, she could feel that he was yellow like the sunlight, and there was the smell of ripe cornfields about him.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
She assured them, too, of her firm belief that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven’s own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father’s peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

Quotes with RIPE (3)

Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances? Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen: Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages, we have worn masks of fruit and flowers in order to conceal from ourselves the meaty essence of our humanity. We appreciate the sexual attractant of the rose, the ripeness of the orange, more than we honor our own ripe carnality. Now today we want to perfume our cities, as well; to replace their stinging fumes of disturbed fossils' sleep with the scent of…
Tom Robbins Wild Ducks Flying Backward
I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illu…
Suzy Kassem Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine.
Kathryn Hall Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden
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Used 762 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).