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Definition of Mature

Mature 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. Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan. Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years. Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration. To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans. 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. Related Definitions: Action, Advance, Age, And, Any, Application, Appropriate, As, Become, Bring, Brought, By, Come, Complete, Completed, Completely, Completeness, Condition, Destined, Development, Digested, Due, Experience, Fitted, For, Full, Full-Grown, Fully, Function, Growth, Hasten, Hence, In, Judgment, Kind, Made, Man, Mature, Maturity, Natural, Note, Of, One, Or, Out, Perfected, Pertaining, Plan, Prepared, Process, Promote, Ready, Ripe, Ripen, Ripeness, State, Suppuration, The, To, Toward, Use, Wine, Worked

Mature Quotations Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. Albert Einstein Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. Friedrich Von Schlegel Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose. David Gallagher

Mature Translations mature in Afrikaans is ryp mature in Danish is moden mature in Dutch is belegen, bezonken, rijp mature in German is reif mature in Italian is maturo mature in Latin is plenus, mitis, subolesco, adultus (adj.) mature in Norwegian is moden mature in Portuguese is maduro mature in Spanish is madurar, cerco, maduro mature in Swedish is vuxen, mogen

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