| Library / English Dictionary |
MATURED
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fully considered and perfected
Example:
mature plans
Synonyms:
mature; matured
Classified under:
Similar:
developed (being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Fully ripe; at the height of bloom
Example:
a full-blown rose
Synonyms:
full-blown; matured
Classified under:
Similar:
mature (having reached full natural growth or development)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb mature
Context examples:
Scientists have sketched out one of the greatest baby booms in North American history, a centuries-long growth blip among southwestern Native Americans between 500 and 1300 A.D. It was a time when the early features of civilization—including farming and food storage—had matured to a level where birth rates likely exceeded the highest in the world today.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
He had seen too much of life, and his mind was too matured, to be wholly content with fractions, cube root, parsing, and analysis; and there were times when their conversation turned on other themes—the last poetry he had read, the latest poet she had studied.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I will only add, to what I have already written of my perseverance at this time of my life, and of a patient and continuous energy which then began to be matured within me, and which I know to be the strong part of my character, if it have any strength at all, that there, on looking back, I find the source of my success.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My duty to Agnes, who loved me with a love, which, if I disquieted, I wronged most selfishly and poorly, and could never restore; my matured assurance that I, who had worked out my own destiny, and won what I had impetuously set my heart on, had no right to murmur, and must bear; comprised what I felt and what I had learned.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Meaning nothing but a certain matured frivolity and selfishness, not always inseparable from full-blown years, I think she confirmed him in his fear that he was a constraint upon his young wife, and that there was no congeniality of feeling between them, by so strongly commending his design of lightening the load of her life.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
