mature
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mature/məˈtʃʊə(r)/
▶adjective (maturer, maturest)
- 1 fully developed physically; full-grown.
■ having reached a stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adult; grown-up.
■ (of thought or planning) careful and thorough.
- 2 having reached the most fully developed stage in a process.
■ (of certain foodstuffs or drinks) ready for consumption; ripe.
■ denoting an economy or industry that has developed to a point where substantial expansion no longer takes place.
- 3 (of a bill) due for payment.
- 1 become mature.
- 2 (of an insurance policy, security, etc.) reach the end of its term and hence become payable.
– derivatives
maturely adverb.
maturely adverb.
'mature' also found in these Oxford entries:
abort
- age
- blossom
- cancellous
- capercaillie
- -cyte
- dame
- force
- gamete
- golden eagle
- hardwood
- loment
- mama
- mature student
- maturity
- melanocyte
- mutton
- nubile
- nymphet
- old-growth
- onion set
- ovum
- precocial
- proglottid
- shelterwood
- silverback
- spermatogenesis
- spermatozoon
- vinho verde
- well rounded
