States and conditions
Synonyms for mature
Synonyms for mature: ripe and age. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for mature
Interchangeable with mature in this sense
Audited under mature's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one mature carries in that sense.
- ripeadjective, in the sense "fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name mature as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- ageage is a verb in the sense "grow old or older"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under mature and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
Full-bodied mature wines.
The true synonym
ripe
Same sentence, swapped: Full-bodied ripe wines.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for mature in the sentence quoted.
- fledged
- green
- compound
Where mature turns up in the game
mature is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where mature is the trap
- compoundverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is combine, in the sense "combine so as to form a whole", with mature sitting one tile away.
- ripeadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is right, in the sense "most suitable or right for a particular purpose", and mature is one of the three tiles that lose.
- sophisticatedadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is advanced, in the sense "ahead in development", and mature is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play mature
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mature reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from states and conditions at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. mature carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.