Thesaurus / ripeness
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synonyms for ripeness
- ability
- capability
- experience
- manhood
- maturation
- sophistication
- wisdom
- advancement
- civilization
- completion
- cultivation
- development
- fitness
- fullness
- majority
- matureness
- mellowness
- mentality
- perfection
- prime
- readiness
- womanhood
- full bloom
- maturescence
- postpubescence
- prime of life
- accomplishment
- evolution
- excellence
- fulfillment
- ideal
- integrity
- precision
- purity
- quality
- superiority
- supremacy
- transcendence
- virtue
- acme
- arete
- completion
- consummation
- crown
- ending
- entireness
- exactness
- excellency
- exquisiteness
- faultlessness
- finish
- finishing
- idealism
- impeccability
- maturity
- merit
- paragon
- realization
- sublimity
- wholeness
- achieving
- perfectness
- fitness
- good will
- keenness
- preparation
- preparedness
- willingness
- address
- adroitness
- alacrity
- aptness
- deftness
- dexterity
- dispatch
- ease
- eloquence
- expedience
- expedition
- facility
- fluency
- handiness
- inclination
- maturity
- promptitude
- promptness
- prowess
- quickness
- rapidity
- sleight
- volubility
antonyms for ripeness
MOST RELEVANT
- ignorance
- impotence
- inability
- incompetence
- stupidity
- decline
- downfall
- imperfection
- incompleteness
- stoppage
- childhood
- minority
- youth
- failure
- frustration
- imperfection
- inferiority
- damage
- deficiency
- flaw
- incompleteness
- uselessness
- worthlessness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use ripeness in a sentence
The time necessary for the curing of the plants will depend upon the ripeness of the plants as well as the weather during curing.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.He died at his home on the 26th of July, 1826, in the ripeness of years and of honors.
THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANSZACHARY F. SMITHAnd this reward came to Henry James in the ripeness of his talents; even further perhaps it entered his life and his conversation.
INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUNDThey both were late in coming to maturity, and psychical ripeness was much behind even the physical.
SONS AND LOVERSDAVID HERBERT LAWRENCEFor Peter knew by experience that good motions must be taken advantage of in their first ripeness.
SALTED WITH FIREGEORGE MACDONALDDr. Hitchcock, in the fulness of his beautiful fame, in the ripeness of his years, confirms the truth of my principles.
A NEW ATMOSPHEREGAIL HAMILTONIn a certain sense, if one thinks, it is the ripeness of Raphael's perfection which falls short of Perfection.
IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTSHAVELOCK ELLISHalf the ripeness of England—half the religion, one might almost say—is in its gardens; they are truly pious foundations.
PICTURE AND TEXTHENRY JAMESHe is doubtless clever enough to paint rawness when he must, but he has an irrepressible sense of ripeness.
PICTURE AND TEXTHENRY JAMESThey would come back again in an unexpected ripeness of time and demand a hearing: an exquisite nervous tragic hearing.
I, MARY MACLANEMARY MACLANEWORDS RELATED TO RIPENESS
- accomplishment
- achieving
- acme
- arete
- completion
- consummation
- crown
- ending
- entireness
- evolution
- exactness
- excellence
- excellency
- exquisiteness
- faultlessness
- finish
- finishing
- fulfillment
- ideal
- idealism
- impeccability
- integrity
- maturity
- merit
- paragon
- perfectness
- precision
- purity
- quality
- realization
- ripeness
- sublimity
- superiority
- supremacy
- transcendence
- virtue
- wholeness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.