Crossword-Solution: RIPENESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ripeness | n. | The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “RIPENESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Banana buyer's concern | 1 answer |
| Fruit's maturation | 1 answer |
| Fruit-buyer's concern | 1 answer |
| Something tested on the vine | 1 answer |
| What the thunk of a watermelon indicates | 1 answer |
| the state of being ripe | 1 answer |
| Sign of maturity | 2 answers |
| Maturity | 3 answers |
| COMING TO MATURITY | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RIPENESS (5)
Double rows Of bartering booths spread out their tempting shows Of globed and golden fruit, the morning air Smells sweet with ripeness, on the pavement there A wicker basket gapes and overflows Spilling out cool, blue plums.
She knew the ripeness and harmony of his intellect, the nobility of his character, and the generosity of a feeling which would be satisfied with only a partial return.
Modesty was her chief adornment; hence the younger women were usually silent and retiring: but a woman who had attained to ripeness of years and wisdom, or who had displayed notable courage in some emergency, was sometimes invited to a seat in the council.
John Macnaughton gave the address in his own lovely and inimitable words, to commemorate one whom he lamented, "so young and strong, in the prime of life, in the full ripeness of his fine powers, his season of fruit and flower bearing.
When I was a boy I often came to the mearrah of the Jews to eat kermous in the season of their ripeness.
Quotes with RIPENESS (3)
He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an …
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…
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1974–2019).