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What (who) is Mature - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Immature; Mature (disambiguation)
mature
(matures, maturing, matured, maturer, maturest)
1.
When a child or young animal matures, it becomes an adult.
You will learn what to expect as your child matures physically...
= grow up
VERB: V
2.
When something matures, it reaches a state of complete development.
When the trees matured they were cut in certain areas...
VERB: V
3.
If someone matures, they become more fully developed in their personality and emotional behaviour.
Hopefully after three years at university I will have matured...
VERB: V
4.
If you describe someone as mature, you think that they are fully developed and balanced in their personality and emotional behaviour.
They are emotionally mature and should behave responsibly...
ADJ [approval]
5.
If something such as wine or cheese matures or is matured, it is left for a time to allow its full flavour or strength to develop.
Unlike wine, brandy matures only in wood, not glass.
...the cellars where the cheeses are matured.
VERB: V, be V-ed
6.
Mature cheese or wine has been left for a time to allow its full flavour or strength to develop.
Grate some mature cheddar cheese.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
7.
When an investment such as a savings policy or pension plan matures, it reaches the stage when you stop paying money and the company pays you back the money you have saved, and the interest your money has earned. (BUSINESS)
These bonuses will be paid when your savings plan matures in ten years' time.
VERB: V
8.
If you say that someone is mature or of mature years, you are saying politely that they are middle-aged or old.
...a man of mature years who had been in the job for longer than most of the members could remember.
ADJ [politeness]
mature
I. a.
1.
Perfected by time, complete, perfect, ripe, full-grown.
2.
Prepared, ready, well-considered, well digested, completed, ripe.
II. v. a.
1.
Ripen.
2.
Perfect, bring to perfection, bring to maturity, advance toward perfection.
III. v. n.
1.
Become ripe.
2.
Become due.
mature
¦ adjective (maturer, maturest)
1. fully developed physically; full-grown.
having reached a stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adult; grown-up.
(of thought or planning) careful and thorough.
2. having reached the most fully developed stage in a process.
(of certain foodstuffs or drinks) ready for consumption; ripe.
denoting an economy or industry that has developed to a point where substantial expansion no longer takes place.
3. (of a bill) due for payment.
¦ verb
1. become mature.
2. (of an insurance policy, security, etc.) reach the end of its term and hence become payable.
Derivatives
maturely adverb
Origin
ME: from L. maturus 'timely, ripe'; perh. related to matins.
Wikipedia
Mature
Mature is the adjectival form of maturity, as immature is the adjectival form of immaturity, which have several meanings.
Mature or immature may also refer to:
- Mature, a character from The King of Fighters series
- "Mature 17+", a rating in the Entertainment Software Rating Board video game rating system
- Victor Mature (1913-1999), American actor
- Immature (band), an American boy band
Examples of use of Mature
1. Children who live here are very mature, much more mature than they are in other places.
2. "This is surely not the way mature executives and mature boards should behave," he added.
3. A mature debate I also believe that we should try to debate foreign policy in a mature and responsible way.
4. TSPL The Scotsman Publications Limited is in robust financial health, but it‘s a mature business in a mature industry.
5. "Indians physically mature later than other players.