Usually means: Most mature or developed stage.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. ripest: Merriam-Webster
  2. ripest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ripest: Vocabulary.com
  4. ripest: Wordnik
  5. ripest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ripest: Wiktionary
  7. Ripest, ripest: Dictionary.com
  8. ripest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. ripest: FreeDictionary.org
  10. ripest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ripest: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. ripest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ripest: Encyclopedia

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  1. ripest: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Ripe)

adjective:  (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
adjective:  (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
adjective:  (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
adjective:  (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge. (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
adjective:  Ready for action or effect; prepared.
adjective:  Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
adjective:  (obsolete) Intoxicated.
adjective:  (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
adjective:  Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
noun:  (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
verb:  To ripen or mature
noun:  The bank of a river.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To search; to rummage.
adjective:  (proscribed, used with with) Rife
noun:  A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).
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