to mature

  • 61mature\ moment — Usually applied to people over 40 a synonym for brain fade or synapse lapse. Forgetting something simple. I forgot milk at the store again. I must have had a mature moment …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 62mature\ moment — Usually applied to people over 40 a synonym for brain fade or synapse lapse. Forgetting something simple. I forgot milk at the store again. I must have had a mature moment …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 63mature consideration — adult consideration, mature manner of thinking …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 64mature —    old    Literally, fully developed:     ... the high payers at the front wind up with some of the more mature girls. (Moynahan, 1983 older stewardesses tend to work the first class section in aircraft) …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 65mature — adjective (maturer, maturest) 1》 fully developed physically; full grown.     ↘having reached a stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adult; grown up.     ↘(of thought or planning) careful and thorough. 2》 having reached… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 66mature — [məˈtʃʊə] adj I 1) behaving in the sensible way that you would expect an adult to behave Ant: immature 2) fully developed or fully grown II verb [I] mature [məˈtʃʊə] 1) to start behaving like an adult and become more sensible 2) to grow to full… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 67mature —   Makua, kanaka makua, o o.   Also: mahao o; laho o o (male); kākala (gourds); piha pona (bonds).    ♦ To mature, ho omakua, o o, kupuohi.    ♦ Your gentleness has matured me, o kō ahonui ka i ho omakua mai nei ia u. See saying, pakī …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 68mature T-cell lymphoma — One of a group of aggressive (fast growing) non Hodgkin’s lymphomas that begin in mature T lymphocytes (T cells that have matured in the thymus gland and gone to other lymphatic sites in the body, including lymph nodes, bone marrow, and spleen.)… …

    English dictionary of cancer terms

  • 69mature — [15] ‘Earliness’ is the etymological notion underlying the word mature. It goes back ultimately to a pre Latin base *mātu , which produced the Latin adjective mātūrus ‘timely, early’, direct source of the English word (in Old French mātūrus… …

    Word origins

  • 70mature — adj. & v. adj. (maturer, maturest) 1 with fully developed powers of body and mind, adult. 2 complete in natural development, ripe. 3 (of thought, intentions, etc.) duly careful and adequate. 4 (of a bill etc.) due for payment. v. 1 a tr. & intr.… …

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