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OVERRIPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overripe mean?
• OVERRIPE (adjective)
The adjective OVERRIPE has 1 sense:
1. too ripe and beginning to turn soft
Familiarity information: OVERRIPE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: overriper
Superlative: overripest
Superlative: overripest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Too ripe and beginning to turn soft
Similar:
mature; ripe (fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used)
Context examples
"Those big movies around Fiftieth Street are cool," suggested Jordan. "I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it—overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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