Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 18 compound words that contain ripe. The most common are listed below. Open ripe in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- time is ripeA suitable time has arrived for a particular activity.
- ripe for the pickingReady to be taken or exploited.
- Chalvington with RipeA civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England, which includes the named villages.
- drop-ripeRipe enough to be ready to fall from the tree.
- force-ripeprematurely or artificially ripened
- market-ripeOf fruits and vegetables: almost but not quite ripe; ready to be sold, so as to be ripe when used by the purchaser.
- over-ripeAlternative form of overripe: Excessively ripe; spoiled; gone bad.
- rare-ripeAlternative spelling of rareripe: ripening early (said most commonly of peaches and onions)
- under-ripeAlternative spelling of underripe: Insufficiently ripe for harvesting or eating.
- ripe old ageA very old age
- like a ripe plumWith no effort on one's part.
- ripe for the pluckingSynonym of ripe for the picking: Ready to be taken or exploited.
- rope-ripeDeserving of being hanged.
Compound words 18
- ripenOf grain, fruit, flowers, etc., to grow ripe; to become mature.
- unripeNot ripe.
- ripenessThe characteristic of being ripe.
- ultraripeExtremely ripe.
- semiripeSomewhat or partially ripe.
- nonripeNot ripe.
- ripeishSomewhat ripe.
- firstripeOf fruit, the earliest to ripen; the freshest.
- ripeningThe process of becoming ripe.
- overripeExcessively ripe; spoiled; gone bad.