1. having reached full natural growth or development: a mature cell.
2. having reached a desired or final condition; ripe: a mature cheese.
3. of, relating to, or characteristic of full development, either mental or physical: mature for her age.
4. suitable or intended for adults: mature subject matter.
5. composed of adults: a mature audience.
6. worked out fully by the mind; considered: a mature plan of action.
7. having reached the limit of its time; due: a mature bond.
8. no longer subject to great expansion or development. used of an industry, a market, or a product.
9. geology having reached maximum development of form. used of streams and landforms.
10. to bring to full development; ripen.
11. to work out fully in the mind: "able to digest and mature my thoughts for my own mind only” ( john Stuart mill).
12. to evolve toward or reach full development: the child's judgment matures as she grows older.
13. to become due. used of notes and bonds.

1. fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
2. profound; careful.
3. to become mature; to ripen.
4. to gain experience or wisdom with age.
5. (finance) to reach the date when payment is due

1. 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.
2. completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected.
3. of or pertaining to a condition of full development.
4. come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
5. to advance toward maturity; to become ripe
6. hence, to become due, as a note.
7. to bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete.

1. complete in natural growth or development; fully grown or ripened; ripe: as, mature grain or fruit; a person of mature age; mature in judgment.
2. completely elaborated or prepared; brought to maturity; ready for use or execution; fully evolved; ample; thorough: as, a result of mature deliberation.
3. in medicine, in a state of perfect suppuration.
4. in com., become payable; having reached the time fixed for payment; fully due.
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6. to cause to ripen; bring to maturity: as, to mature ale.
7. to elaborate or carry to completion; make ripe or ready for use or action: as, to mature one's plans.
8. in medicine, to bring to a state of perfect suppuration; maturate.
9. to come to a state of ripeness; become ripe or perfect: as, wine matures by age or by agitation in a long voyage; the judgment matures by age and experience.
10. in com., to reach the time fixed for payment, or for payment of the principal, as distinguished from instalments of interest: as, a bill matures on a certain date.
11. in medicine, to come to a state of perfect suppuration.
12. in physical geography and geology, noting the stage of maximum development; specifically, rioting a stage in the cycle of erosion when the fullest development of variety in forms and of activity in processes is attained.

1. cause to ripen and discharge pus
2. become due for repayment
3. (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
4. cause to ripen or develop fully
5. fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
6. having reached full natural growth or development
7. develop and work out fully in one's mind
8. develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
9. fully considered and perfected
10. grow old or older
11. characteristic of maturity