mature Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
maturate; grow.
- He matured fast
- The child grew fast
verb develop and work out fully in one's mind
- I need to mature my thoughts
verb become due for repayment
- These bonds mature in 2005
verb cause to ripen or develop fully
ripen.
- The sun ripens the fruit
- Age matures a good wine
verb grow old or older
age; maturate; senesce; get on.
- She aged gracefully
- we age every day--what a depressing thought!
- Young men senesce
verb cause to ripen and discharge pus
suppurate.
- The oil suppurates the pustules
adjective characteristic of maturity
- mature for her age
adjective satellite fully considered and perfected
matured.
- mature plans
adjective having reached full natural growth or development
- a mature cell
adjective fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
ripe.
- ripe peaches
- full-bodied mature wines
adjective (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
fledged.

L. maturus; prob. akin to E. matin.

comparative Maturer ; superlative Maturest

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.
Now is love mature in ear. Tennison.

How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age ? Pope.
Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
This lies glowing, . . . and is almost mature for the violent breaking out. Shak.
Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration. Syn. -- Ripe; perfect; completed; prepared; digested; ready. -- Mature, Ripe. Both words describe fullness of growth. Mature brings to view the progressiveness of the process; ripe indicates the result. We speak of a thing as mature when thinking of the successive stayes through which it has passed; as ripe, when our attention is directed merely to its state. A mature judgment; mature consideration; ripe fruit; a ripe scholar.

See Maturate, Mature.

imperfect & past participle Matured ; present participle & verbal noun Maturing

To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans. Bacon.

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.