Mature

Definition: Mature

Mature

Adjective

1. Characteristic of maturity; "mature for her age".

2. Fully considered and perfected; "mature plans".

3. Having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell".

4. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodies mature wines".

5. (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination.

Verb

1. Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast".

2. Grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mature" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Medicine

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mature

Adolescence

Adjective: adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile.

Continuance in action

Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.

Improvement

Advance; (progress); ascend; increase; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover.

Perfection

Bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete &,c.; put in trim; (prepare); maturate.

Plan

Cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange; digest, mature.

Preparation

Ripe, mature, mellow; pukka; practiced; (skilled); labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up.

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Thought

After thought, mature thought; reconsideration, second thoughts; retrospection; (memory); excogitation; examination; (inquiry) invention; (imagination).

Crosswords: Mature

French (mature), Latin (at the right time, early, in time, mature, mellow, prematurely, quickly, ripe, seasonable, speedy, timely).

Ma, you had no idea if he was a mature, responsible person (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

I'm a teen, I'm not yet mature. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Girls mature faster than guys (Beverly Hills, 90210; writing credit: Ed Ferrara; Jim Lincoln)

Sounds pretty mature for twenty-five (Reindeer Games; writing credit: Ehren Kruger)

Yeah, girls mature faster than guys (Peggy Sue Got Married; writing credit: Jerry Leichtling; Arlene Sarner)

Immature love: I love you because I need you. Mature love: I need you because I love you. (references; author: unknown)

La Casa delle mele mature (1971)

Posle mature (1953)

Mature Women 2 (1991)

Le Ciliege sono mature (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Be Mature (reference)

• Be mature : an expository study of the Epistle of James (reference)

• Cruise Vacations for Mature Travelers (reference)

• First Week With My New PC :A Very Basic Guide for Mature Adults & Everyone Else (reference)

• History of Vatican II: The Mature Council, 2nd Period and Intersession (History of Vatican II, Volume 3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Mature Fitness (reference)

• Mature Living (reference)

• Mature Traveler (reference)

• Mature Years (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Bach: Leipzig Chorals & other mature works (reference)

• Nietzsche: Compositions Of His Mature Years, Volume II (reference)

• Mister Mature (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A. Peripheral blood leukocyte from an AIDS patient producing HIV. There are several particles budding from the periphery of the cell. Other virus particles cluster outside the cell membrane. (x30) b. Enlargement of far right center area of top photo showing mature HIV particles. (x90) c. HIV particle budding from cell membrane. (x200) d. Mature hiv particle with characteristic core. (x200). See artwork: GR-07. Credit: Matt Gonda (photographer).

A technique called in situ hybridization shows whether a gene is actively expressed in cells, and also provides clues to the gene's function. This technique has helped identify activated oncogenes in cancer cells, and their normal counterparts in normal cells, in many different species. In this photograph, a labeled DNA segment (a known oncogene) has been put into a mouse oocyte, a cell that develops into a mature egg cell. The labeled DNA has paired with (or hybridized to) multiple copies of RNA in the mouse oocyte. The presence of this RNA (shown here as black dots inside the nucleus of the immature cell) shows that the normal cellular counterpart of the oncogene is active, suggesting that it is critical for normal germ cell development. Expression of genes is manifested by the production of RNA transcripts within cells. Hybridization histochemistry (in situ hybridization) permits localization of these transcripts with cellular or greater resolution. Furthermore, the relative amounts of transcripts detected within different tissues or the same tissues under different states (e.g., physiological or developmental) may be quantified. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Emergence of mature worm through skin of leg, causing severe local pain. Credit: CDC.

Transmission electron micrograph showing developing forms of Encephalitozoon intestinalis inside a parasitophorous vacuole (red arrows) with mature spores (black arrows). microsporidiosis, parasite. Credit: CDC.

A mature blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, captured in a net. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The sex of a blue crab is determined by the shape of the "apron". The male apron, shown here, is shaped like a rocket. Females have either a "V" shape (immature) or a very wide apron with a small tip (mature.). Credit: America's Coastlines.

Volunteers plant naturally occurring vegetation at the stream bed. When the vegetation is mature it will help to cool the stream and provide favorable conditions for spawning. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Tornado in mature stage of development. Photo #3 of a series of classic photographs of this tornado. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

The first tornado captured by the NSSL doppler radar and NSSL chase personnel. The tornado has reached the mature stage of formation. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Broyozoa, oysters, sponges on interior roof of concrete pipe. Community is characteristic of mature interior reef surface. You can see scrape marks from grazing fish on dark and light green colonies of bryozoa. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security? for the people having reserved to themselves the choice of their representatives, as the fence to their properties, could do it for no other end, but that they might always be freely chosen, and so chosen, freely act, and advise, as the necessity of the common-wealth, and the public good should, upon examination, and mature debate, be judged to require. (Second Treatise of Government)

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His reason, more mature, and, at the same time, perturbed more than formerly, would revolt

Al was very proud and very mature, then

But as I was not in a condition to resent injuries, so, upon mature thoughts, I began to doubt whether I were injured or not.

It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The data are mature at a median followup of 7 years. (references)

Nymphs mature into adults about 7 days after hatching. (references)

The worms pass into the small intestine and, in 1-2 days, become mature. (references)

Business

The domestic industry is not mature. (references)

This is so not only for new, but also for mature equipment. (references)

The market for food processing equipment in Spain is mature. (references)

Civil Liberties

Albania

The print media is extremely polarized, and with few exceptions, the print media lack a mature, trained, professional staff. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

The textile and apparel sectors are mature in Brazil. (references)

Australia

The Australian franchise sector is both large and mature. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

The securities market is still not highly developed, but continues to mature. (references)

Canada

The financial markets in Canada are stable, mature, and accessible to everyone. (references)

Australia

As in other industrialized countries with mature financial systems, Australia has a range of export finance methods available. (references)

Travel

Finland

Finland is a modern, commercially mature country that enjoys close relations with its Nordic neighbors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "mature": after mature deliberation ♦ be mature ♦ become mature ♦ mature early ♦ mature maid ♦ mature plans ♦ mature wood ♦ sexually mature ♦ to mature. Additional references.

Beginning with "mature": mature-stage.

Ending with "mature": fully-mature, over-mature, post-mature, pre-mature, semi-mature, soon-to-mature.

Afrikaans

ryp (ripe), beleë (ripe). (various references)

Albanian

që i ka ardhur afati, piqem (bake, broil, grow ripe, grow round, grow up, head, mellow, ripen), për t'u shlyer, i thekur (browned, hardened, laid up, toasted), i stazhionuar, i pjekur (baked, burnt, full blown, full grown, mellow, ripe, weighty), i menduar mirë (elaborate, thought-out), i bërë (done, fabricated, made, mellow, ripe), i arrirë (mellow, ripe), bëhet i pagueshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مستحق الدفع (owing, paid), ‏معتق (aged, freer, liberator), ‏مدروس (calculated, deliberate, elaborate, examined, forethought, fully considered, studied, thoughtful, well advised), ‏نضج (maturity, precocity, ripeness), ‏ناضج (forward, grown, old fashioned, overripe, ripe), ‏حين وقت سداده, ‏تام النمو (grown), ‏إنضج (age, become round, ripen, season), ‏إستحق الدفع, ‏راشد (adult, elder, grown up, legally major, major, orthodox, reasonable, sensible, sober). (various references)

Bulgarian 

узрявам (bake, grow ripe, maturate, mellow, ripen), узрял (mellow), разработвам (amplify, develop, elaborate, exploit, open, operate, recover, run in, shake down, treat, work out), готов за, оставям да отлежи (season), отлежавам (age, season), отлежал (aged, mellow, seasoned), назрял за, напълно развит (definitive, full grown, full-fledged), зрял (adult, grown, mellow, ripe), платим (chargeable, due, payable), идвам (accrue, arrive, come, hail, materialize, pop along, pop over, reach, rise, roll around, roll in, roll up, set in), добре обмислен (circumspect, measured, weighty, well thought out, well-judged). (various references)

Chinese 

成熟 (ripe). (various references)

Czech

zralý (full blown, grown, mellow, ripe), uzrát (grow ripe). (various references)

Danish

moden (ripe). (various references)

Dutch

bezonken (ripe), belegen (ripe). (various references)

Esperanto

matura (ripe). (various references)

Faeroese

staðin (ripe), búgvin (ripe). (various references)

Farsi 

کامل (Absolute, Complete, Culminant, Exact, Intact, Integral, Large, Main, Perfect, Plenary, Stark, Thorough, Unabridged, Unmitigated, Unqualified, Whole), سررسیده شده , رشدکردن (Grow, Wax), بالغ (Adolescent, Adult, Full, Major, Marriageable, Ripe). (various references)

Finnish

kypsä (baked, ripe, well done), kehittynyt (advanced, developed). (various references)

French

mature, mûr, adulte. (various references)

Frisian

ryp (ripe). (various references)

German

reif (bangle, circlet, Hoar, hoarfrost, hoar-frost, hoop, maturely, mellowly, ready, rime, ripe, seasoned), fertig (all in, completed, done, done in, finished, over, qualified, readily, ready, ready made, set, shattered, through, thru). (various references)

Greek 

ώριμος (grown up, ripe), ωριμάζω (grow up, maturate, mellow, ripen, season). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבוגר (adult, elder, grown up), להתגמר (ripen), להתבגר (become adult, grow up), לבגור (come of age, grow up), גמל (camel), בוגר (adolescent, adult), בשל (because of, cooked, for, ripe), בגיר (adolescent, adult). (various references)

Hungarian

érett (mellow, mure, ripe, seasoned), lejárt (no longer available, overdue, stale), esedékes (due, outstanding, receivable). (various references)

Indonesian

mendewasakan, matang (ripe), masak (cook, ripe), dewasa (adult, grown up, marriageable, of age), balig (attain one's majority, be of age). (various references)

Irish

aibidh (ripe). (various references)

Italian

maturo (adult, frost, mellow, ripe, seasoned). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

老成 (becoming precocious), 熟成 (cure, ferment, ripen), 深甚 (careful, profound), 円熟した (fully developed, mellow, ripe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しんじん (belief, careful, devotion, faith, godlike person, godliness, gods and men, new face, newcomer, profound, true man), ろうせい (becoming precocious, elderly person's polite reference to self, labor administration), じゅくせい (cure, ferment, private-school student, ripen), えんじゅくした (fully developed, mellow, ripe). (various references)

Korean 

미성숙한 (immature). (various references)

Manx

appee (due, ripe). (various references)

Norwegian

moden (ripe). (various references)

Papiamen

hechu (ripe), hecho (ripe), echu (ripe), berdè (green, ripe). (various references)

Pig Latin

aturemay.(various references)

Portuguese

maduro (full-blown, mellow, ripe), sazonado (mellow, ripe). (various references)

Romanian

matur (adult, full grown, maturely, mellow, ripe), se pârgui, se maturiza (come in, season), se coace (come in, cook, maturate, parch, ripen), pârguit (mellow, ripe), lãsa sã se coacã, elabora în amãnunt, deveni scadent (become due, fall, fall due), copt (baked, mellow, ripe), coace (bake, broil, cook, dry, fire, gather, hatch, parch, pop, ripen, roast), bine gândit, ajunge la scadenţã (expire). (various references)

Russian 

созревший (ripe), созревать (come of age, season), спелый (mellow, ripe), тщательно обдуманный, готовый (fit, forward, get ready, hand-me-down, made, off the peg, off-the-shelf, prepared, reach, ready, ready made, ready to, ready to wear, ready-for-service, ready-made, willing), вполне развитый, обдуманный (advised, considered, deliberate, measured, politic, studied), зрелый;тщательно обдуманный, зрелый (ripe), продуманный (considered, deep-laid, thought of, thought-out, well thought out, well-judged, well-thought-out), подлежащий оплате (chargeable). (various references)

Scottish

abaich (ripe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zreti (ripen), zreo (adult, full-fledged, grown, mellow, ripe), stasati (come of age), sazreti (grow ripe, maturate, mellow, ripen), razviti (build up, deploy, develop, evolve, pioneer, uncase, unfurl), dospeti (arrive), dospeo (due). (various references)

Spanish

maduro (mellow, ripe), madurar (maturate, mellow, ripen, season, silk), hecho (complete, concoction, creation, deed, deposition, done, dossier, effect, encumbrance, fact, factor, furrow, inveterate, issue, landed, looped, made, made up, point of fact, ready made, ready to wear, taken, thing, tied, total). (various references)

Sranan

lepi (abet, accomodate, aid, assist, help, ripe, ripen). (various references)

Swahili

-bivu (ripe), bivu (ripe). (various references)

Swedish

mogen (full-fledged, mellow, ripe), vuxen (adult, full-grown, grown, grown up, grown-up). (various references)

Turkish

vadesi gelmiş, vadesi gelmek (fall due, fall in), tamam (according to hoyle, agreed, all right, alright, complete, done, exactly, finished, it's a deal, o.k., ok, okay, precisely, righto, rightoh, roger, yeah), olmak (be, be situated, become, befall, come about, come off, come over, eventuate, exist, fare, get, go, go on, grow, hap, happen, hatch, have, hit, occur, take place, turn), olgunlaştırmak (ripen, season), olgunlaşmak (cut one's wisdom teeth, flower, head, maturate, mellow, ripen, season, set), olgun (grown, mellow, ripe, seasoned), kemâle ermiş (grown up, ripe), ergin (full grown, grown up, of age, of full age, pubescent, ripe). (various references)

Turkmen 

цnmek (be born, grow up, produce). (various references)

Ukrainian

стиглий (headed), цілком розвинутися, доношений, дозріти, дозрілий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trưởng thành cẩn thận, thành thực (unfeigned), chín chắn (ripe, thoughtful), chín. (various references)

Welsh

aeddfed (fully grown, gathered, ripe). (various references)

Yucatec

yi'h (ripe), tak'aan (cooked, ripe), k'an (ripe, yellow). (various references)

adultis, adultumque, adultus, adultus (adj.), alesco, corrobora, corroborandum, corroborari, corroborasset, corroboratusque, corroboravit, corroboret, firma, firmae, firmam, firmas, firme, firmi, firmior, firmiorem, firmiores, firmis, firmissimas, firmissime, firmissimi, firmissimo, firmissimus, firmo, firmos, firmum, firmus, maturae, maturare, mature, maturius, maturus, mitis, plenus, subolesco, superadulta, virilem, virili, virilia, virilis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "mature": matured, maturely, maturer, matures, maturest. (additional references)

Words ending with "mature": armature, immature, overmature, premature. (additional references)

Words containing "mature": armatured, armatures, immaturely, immatures, prematurely, prematureness, prematurenesses, prematures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mature" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amature, Amaturen, Amtree, amure, ature, Kanturek, katsuru, Maamur, macure, madurai, Magura, majure, makura, Maouri, maquerel, Masurel, matar, Matari, Mataro, Mataura, Matera, matere, Mathuru, matier, matooke, matra, matre, Matsuri, mattere, mattole, matturs, Matur, matura, Maturaca, maturiy, maturo, mauer, maur, maure, maury, Mauter, Mauthe, Mayuree, Mazure, Mazuri, Mcturk, Metareum, meure, Mistura, Moytura, Mtare, Muchuri, multure, Mutara, mutare, mutue. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: armet, mater, muter, ramet, tamer, urate.

-2 letters: arum, mare, mart, mate, maut, meat, meta, mura, mure, mute, rate, ream, tame, tare, team, tear, term, tram, true, urea.

-3 letters: amu, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, emu, era, eta, mae, mar, mat, met, mut, ram, rat, rem, ret, rue, rum, rut, tae, tam.

+1 letter: amateur, erratum, matured, maturer, matures, muriate, strumae, tempura, trumeau.

+2 letters: ageratum, amateurs, apterium, argentum, argument, armature, drumbeat, emulator, fumarate, immature, maturate, maturely, maturest, maumetry, menstrua, muriated, muriates, muricate, numerate, outdream, ramentum, routeman, ruminate, staumrel, tautomer, tempuras, trumeaux, undreamt, upmarket, upstream, veratrum.

+3 letters: admixture, adumbrate, ageratums, antiserum, arboretum, argentums, argumenta, arguments, armatured, armatures, augmenter, augmentor, automaker, bacterium, castoreum, drumbeats, emulators, enumerate, formulate, fumarates, hematuria, immatures, marquetry, masterful, maturated, maturates, menstrual, mercurate, micturate, miniature, mousetrap, mucronate, multiyear, neuromata, numerated, numerates, numerator, outdreams, outdreamt, premature, rheumatic, rheumatiz, ruminated, ruminates, sarmentum, septarium, staumrels, submarket, tamboured, tambourer, tautomers, terrarium, transmute, trapezium, tremulant, tularemia, tularemic, veratrums.