ripened

1. 1.

   of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable)

   “mature well-aged cheeses”

   Synonymsaged

   Similarripe

Other forms of ripened

comparative

ripenedder·

superlative

ripeneddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ripened

What does ripened mean?

ripened means "of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable)".

How many syllables are in ripened?

ripened has 2 syllables: ripe-ned. The stress falls on "ripe". In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪpənd/.

What is another word for ripened?

Close synonyms include aged. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ripened a common word?

ripened is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.