Definition of Mature

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Mature

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.

Hence, to become due, as a note.

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Mature Quotations

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Brian Tracy

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

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

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
Alice Walker

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries

Mature Translations

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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