Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. Albert Einstein
My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be. Eminem
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot
mature in Afrikaans is ryp
mature in Danish is moden
mature in Dutch is belegen, bezonken, rijp
mature in German is reif
mature in Italian is maturo
mature in Latin is plenus, mitis, subolesco, adultus (adj.)
mature in Norwegian is moden
mature in Portuguese is maduro
mature in Spanish is madurar, cerco, maduro
mature in Swedish is vuxen, mogen
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