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unripe

[uhn-rahyp]

adjective

  1. not ripe; immature; not fully developed.

    unripe fruit.

  2. too early; premature.



unripe

/ ʌˈɪ /

adjective

  1. not fully matured

  2. not fully prepared or developed; not ready

  3. obsoletepremature or untimely

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • unripely adverb
  • unripeness noun
  • ܲˈԱ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of unripe1

before 1000; Middle English unrype, Old English ܲ԰ī. See un- 1, ripe
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On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.

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Some Chinese consumers have complained that durians are arriving unripe.

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"It was unripe — there was no action by the EPA that Louisiana could challenge," said Kron.

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Verjus is a slightly sweet and acidic drink made from young, unripe grapes, also used in cooking.

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They scrape out the flesh of the unripe fruit and squeeze the pulp in a rolled leaf to extract a milky white juice.

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