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Definition of Mature

Mature

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.

Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.

Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.

Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.

To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.

To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.

Hence, to become due, as a note.

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Mature Quotations

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Brian Tracy

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Charles de Montesquieu

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
Daniel Goleman

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
Rudolf Arnheim

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
Alice Walker

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
Bram Cohen

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
Robert Morgan

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.
Sofia Vergara

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Anthony Trollope

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
Sargent Shriver

I have considered myself a mature actor.
DeForest Kelley

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
Sasha Cohen

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
Maria Callas

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
Robert Fripp

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.
John Le Carre

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
Kabir Bedi

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Mature Translations

mature in Afrikaans is ryp
mature in Danish is moden
mature in Dutch is belegen, bezonken, rijp
mature in German is reif
mature in Italian is maturo
mature in Latin is plenus, mitis, subolesco, adultus (adj.)
mature in Norwegian is moden
mature in Portuguese is maduro
mature in Spanish is madurar, cerco, maduro
mature in Swedish is vuxen, mogen

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