Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a ripe manner; maturely; fully; thoroughly; fittingly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Maturely; at the fit time.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a ripe way.
  • adverb maturely; at the suitable time

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with mature or developed appearance

Etymologies

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ripe +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • She was old, and her touch held such wisdom that it put babies to sleep, but she was young and rode wildly and she rode fast, or maybe she rode in her own time, ripely

    The Color of Pebbles Grey Johnson 2010

  • While Twombly was alive and working – and his last paintings of flowers were ripely beautiful – it was possible to see a connection between the art of today and the noble legacy of Greece and Rome as it has been perpetuated by artists such as Raphael and Picasso.

    Cy Twombly - an appreciation: Paintings about sex and death 2011

  • It's obviously empty: how unlike the slim but ripely crammed Morris Louis case she carries in Hitchcock's Rear Window, from which she produces, to tantalise the stricken James Stewart, the flimsiest of nighties and a pair of slippers with peepholes for her curious big toes.

    Grace Kelly: Style Icon 2010

  • OK, so maybe there's an underlying awful secret -- he participated in aboriginal genocide, or ratted out Reds in Hollywood, or upheld apartheid in South Africa but ... while the camera rolls, the focus of the scenes is the sex and intimacy that occurs in bed and bathtub, between two beautiful bodies, one experienced and dominant, the other ripely pubescent.

    Thelma Adams: Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse? 2009

  • He's still Jack's gofer, living on Jack's charity in Jack's house, in agonizing proximity to Jack's ripely beautiful wife, Catherine (Susan Sarandon), an actress a bit past her prime.

    The Late, Late Show 2008

  • Costanza is caught as if unaware, her chemise falling open over a very touchable breast, her eyes staring in shock and desire, her hair in lusty disarray, her ripely curved lips slightly open, revealing a bit of tongue.

    Living, Breathing Portraits David Littlejohn 2008

  • She slapped the lad, turned — flashing a ripely rounded breast before she yanked tight the gaping robe — and strode off through the crowd, swearing at anyone who got in her way.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • Inside the carriage a pair of bright eyes looked from a ripely handsome face, and though behind those bright eyes was a mind of unfathomed mysteries, beneath them there beat a heart capable of quick extempore warmth — a heart which could, indeed, be passionately and imprudently warm on certain occasions.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • (Gee, remember the ripely terrible "Dance of the Vampires"?)

    August 2004 2004

  • Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did, his locks of a lucan tinge, quickrich, ripely rippling, unfilleted, those lashbetasselled lids on the verge of closing time, whiles ouze of his sidewiseopen mouth the breath of him, evenso languishing as the princeliest treble treacle or lichee chewchow purse could buy.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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