mature.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From late 中期英語 mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from 古期英語 rīpe (“ripe, mature”).

形容詞

mature (comparative more mature, superlative most mature)

1. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.

   She is quite mature for her age.

   The excellent mature eggplants grown in the garden plot are quickly being picked up by family and friends.

2. Brought to a state of complete readiness.

   a mature plan

3. Profound; careful.

   The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.

4. (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
5. (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.

   mature content

同意語

• (grown up in terms of physical appearance): adult, grown; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
• (grown up in terms of behaviour or thinking): adultish, grown up; see also Thesaurus:mature
• (suitable for adults only): adult; see also Thesaurus:for adults

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “grown up”): childish, immature
• (antonym(s) of “profound”): superficial

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 maturen, from Middle French maturer (“to mature”), from Latin mātūrō.

動詞

mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)

1. (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).

   Synonyms: develop, grow, progress, ripen

   • 1797, Mr. Harrison, “A Biographical Sketch of Hogarth”, in The Comick Magazine‎, volume 1, London: Harrison and Co., page 3:

     […] his originality, in the mean time, was maturing to perfection.

2. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.

   Synonyms: ripen, ripen up

   • 1670, John Evelyn, chapter 35, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-trees‎, London, page 246:

     […] Trees […] have alwayes Fruit upon them, ripe, or preparing to mature;

3. (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost‎, book 1, lines 659–660:

     […] But these thoughts
     Full Counsel must mature:

   • 1768, John Hoole, Cyrus: A Tragedy‎, London: T. Davies, act I, page 12:

     […] much it now
     Imports they should be still deceiv’d, till time
     Matures our enterprize;

   • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, New York: Harper, Chapter 13, p. 262,:

     […] I did not interrupt her, I was so busy maturing a plan I had had in my mind for some days […]

   • 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 143:

     […] the long clean groove of her upper lip was ready to go into motion, as if she were going to break her silence with something momentous and long-matured; explain love to me, perhaps.

4. (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.

   Synonym: ripen

   • 1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems‎, London: J. Johnson, page 202:

     […] a ship well freighted with the stores
     The sun matures on India’s spicy shores,

   • 2009, Hugh Findlay, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits‎:

     There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed.

5. (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.

   Synonyms: age, develop, grow up; see also Thesaurus:to age

6. (transitive) To make (someone) mature.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:make older

   • 1776, Hannah Cowley, The Runaway‎, London: Prologue:

     Then Tom shall have his kite, and Fan new dollies,
     Till time matures them for important follies.

   • 1970, Robertson Davies, chapter 2, in Fifth Business‎, part 6, Toronto: Macmillan, page 103:

     […] what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured me;

7. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.

   When the bond matures, the full face value is payable to its bearer.

同意語

• maturate

派生語

アナグラム

• tamure

発音

• IPA: /maˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /maːˈtiu̯r(ə)/

形容詞

mature (rare, Late Middle English)

1. mature (ripe)
2. mature (careful)

派生した語

• English: mature

参照

• “mā̆tūre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

mature

1. alternative form of matere

語源 3

動詞

mature

1. alternative form of maturen

副詞

mātūrē (comparative mātūrius, superlative mātūrissimē)

1. early, speedy, ripe, mature, mellow, timely, seasonable

参照

• “mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mature”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• mature - Latin is Simple Online Dictionary