UNRIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unripe mean? 

• UNRIPE (adjective)
  The adjective UNRIPE has 2 senses:

1. not fully developed or mature; not ripe

2. not fully prepared

  Familiarity information: UNRIPE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNRIPE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not fully developed or mature; not ripe

Synonyms:

green; immature; unripe; unripened

Context example:

green wood

Similar:

unaged (not subjected to an aging process)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not fully prepared

Similar:

unready (not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond)

 Context examples 

Here and there I strayed through the orchard, gathered up the apples with which the grass round the tree roots was thickly strewn; then I employed myself in dividing the ripe from the unripe; I carried them into the house and put them away in the store-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)