Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not ripe or matured; immature.
- adjective Not fully ready or prepared.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not ripe; not mature; not brought to a state of perfection or maturity: as, unripe fruit; an unripe girl. Not seasonable; not yet proper or suitable.
- Not fully prepared; not completed: as, an unripe scheme.
- Too early; premature: as, an unripe death.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not ripe.
- adjective Developing too early; premature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
ripe . - adjective Developing too early;
premature .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not fully prepared
- adjective not fully developed or mature; not ripe
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Examples
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By the time you finish the ripe stuff, the unripe is ready to go, and nothing goes bad.
Iron Chef Your Leftovers And Stop Throwing Away Perfectly Good Food | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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DIARRHEA, CHOLERA MORBUS, ETC., are often caused by eating indigestible or tainted food, such as unripe or decaying fruit, or stale vegetables; or by drinking impure water or poisoned milk (see p. 321).
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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It is generally the result of eating indigestible articles of food, such as unripe fruit or uncooked vegetables.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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They may be brought on by exposure to cold and wet, or by improper and indigestible articles of food, such as unripe fruits, salads, pastries, and, in fact, anything which interferes with the normal operations of the digestive apparatus.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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This was shown by their not disliking rhubarb mixed with a little sugar and milk, which is to us abominably nauseous; and in their strong taste for the sourest and most austere fruits, such as unripe gooseberries and crabapples.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods such as unripe bananas and cooked and cooled potatoes, but commercially produced RS ingredients have started to appear on the market.
NutraIngredients RSS 2009
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Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods such as unripe bananas and cooked and cooled potatoes, but commercially produced RS ingredients have started to appear on the market.
NutraIngredients RSS 2009
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Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods such as unripe bananas and cooked and cooled potatoes, but commercially produced RS ingredients have started to appear on the market.
NutraIngredients RSS 2009
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Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods such as unripe bananas and cooked and cooled potatoes, but commercially produced RS ingredients have started to appear on the market.
NutraIngredients RSS 2009
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Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods such as unripe bananas and cooked and cooled potatoes, but commercially produced RS ingredients have started to appear on the market.
NutraIngredients RSS 2009
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