MATURE Synonyms

• fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used

• fully prepared or eager

• most suitable or right for a particular purpose

• at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge

• far along in time

• being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful

• (used of societies) having high industrial development

• (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads

• (of animals) fully developed

• aged or processed

• rendered competent through trial and experience

• how long something has existed

• an era of history having some distinctive feature

• a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

• a prolonged period of time

• a late time of life

• begin to seem older; get older

• grow old or older

• make older

• pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become

• become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain

• increase in size by natural process

• cause to grow or develop

• develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• grow emotionally or mature

• become attached by or as if by the process of growth

• cause to ripen or develop fully

• grow ripe

• make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation

• work out

• gain through experience

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• change the use of and make available or usable

• elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

• create by training and teaching

• be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest

• grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment

• become technologically advanced

• cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development

• generate gradually

• grow emotionally or mature

• make visible by means of chemical solutions

• superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

• move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions

• move into a strategically more advantageous position

• elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme

• happen

• expand in the form of a series

• develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation

• grow old or older

• ripen and generate pus

• gradual improvement or growth or development

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• a movement forward

• develop in a positive way

• move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

• form or accumulate steadily

• become an adult

• (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination

• (of an arrow) equipped with feathers

• (of animals) fully developed

• fully ripe; at the height of bloom

• fully considered and perfected

• grow old or older

• cause to ripen and discharge pus

• ripen and generate pus

• have smooth relations

• get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)

• get up on the back of

• grow late or (of time) elapse

• appear in a show, on T.V. or radio

• develop in a positive way

• grow old or older