unripeadj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈrʌɪp/, U.S.

/ˌənˈraɪp/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and ripe adj., n.², and adv.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch onrijp (Dutch onrijp ) , Old High German unrīfi (compare German unreif ) < the Germanic base of un- prefix¹ + the Germanic base of ripe adj. Compare unriped adj.

1. Esp. of death: untimely, premature. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] > early or premature > of death

unripeOE

untimely1548

OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 88 Inmatura, unripe deað.

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 453 Inmatura funera : þa unripa [n] , pede [prob. read ungeripede], corpora, hræaw.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. cxii. 1260 ‘Þe bere schapeþ wiþ hire tonge þe brood þat sche bredeþ and bryngeþ forþ.’ And þis vnrype [L. immaturitas] whelpynge makeþ.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke vii. f. 69^v The unripe death of the young strieplyng.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vi. sig. R8^v Dorilaus, whose vnripe death doth yet..draw teares from vertuous eyes.

1633 P. Fletcher (title) Elisa, or An Elegie upon the Unripe Decease of S^r Antonie Irby.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. i. v. 179 If a child were begotten in that unripe and hasty consummation, and that child should be declared bastard, then the peace is to be disturbed.

1701 Epitaph in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 119 Death tane [sic] mee away in my virginity... Friends do lament my unripe fall.

1735 J. Dorman Female Rake: Epist. 12 What Numbers, Martia, has they cruel Breath Doom'd, by this Hero's Sword, to unripe Death!

1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell ii. ix. 159 Commending to him in the hour of unripe death The spirit so rent untimely from its house.

1998 R. Hoban Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer xxviii. 139 I don't think he's got rape and murder on his mind at the moment—he's just fondling my unripe death while mentally replaying his afternoon with you.

a. Of plant and animal products, esp. fruit: not yet ripe, not mature.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by age or cycles > [adjective] > ripe or ripened > unripe or over-ripe

unripec1275

semi-maturec1440

unripedc1500

untimely1535

unripened1561

overripened1594

immature1599

maum1691

under-ripe1707

overripe1769

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > [adjective] > not ripe

unripec1275

unripened1561

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature > not matured by some (natural) process

unripec1275

undigest1398

undigested1528

inconcoct1596

uncocted1601

inconcocted1605

inelaborated1623

indigested1624

incocted1645

unconcocted1649

incoctile1684

c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 320 Mi stefne is blod [read bold]..& þin is ilich one pipe Of one smale wode un ripe.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. vi. 13 As a fijge tree sendith his vnripe fyges.

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 93 Rude [roset] is made of vnripe oile and of rosez.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Wisd. x. 7 The vnripe and vntymely frutes that growe vpon the trees.

1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle ii Unripe fruit will ask more shaking before they fall than those that are.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude 1 The dell, Bath'd by the mist, is fresh and delicate, As vernal corn field, or the unripe flax.

1884 J. Phin Dict. Apiculture 73 Unripe Honey.—Honey from which the water has not been sufficiently evaporated.

1939 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 3 Sept. in War within & Without (1980) 46 I sit on the steps and peel unripe chestnuts for Jon.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Aug. d8/3 The standby salad of unripe green papaya..is worth your attention.

b. Of other natural objects and phenomena: not yet fully developed. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 250 Erastus affirms..that..there hath been Unripe and Unconcocted Silver found in Mines.

1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope IV. 160 (note) The image is taken from half-formed unripe lightening, which streams along the sky.

1838 R. M. Martin Hist. E. India I. ii. iv. 522 Many parts, like the unripe limestone of Totala-kund, resist in a great measure the action of this powerful solvent.

1915 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Dis. Women 71 231 A sarcoma develops out of the rest of the unripe cells.

a. Of a person, state, intention, etc.: not fully developed, not yet mature.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature

green?a1300

rawa1398

indigest1398

unmatured?a1425

unripea1500

unseasonable1515

unbuilded1519

inchoate1534

unripened1561

uncivil1572

unmellowed1573

unmanured1577

unblown1587

ungrown1593

unpolished1594

rudimental1597

rude1600

unsalted1602

unseasoned1602

unlicked1612

embryon1613

unbakeda1616

unbloweda1616

unfledged1615

unmellow1615

sappya1627

embryous1628

unconcocteda1631

unkneaded1633

immature1635

sucking1648

vacuous1651

embryo1659

unelaborate1663

unmature1673

unformed1689

undeveloped1736

infantile1772

uncultivated1796

unelaborated1817

fetal1820

embryotic1823

embryonic1825

embryonary1833

sophomoric1837

seedling1843

rudimentary1851

unwrought1869

juvenescent1875

vealy1890

under-developed1892

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxviii. §147. 432 I ran in barnhede, that is vnrype til perfeccioun.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xix. f. cxlix^v That same stemme of the Judaical figtree, brought foorth grosse, vnsauery, and vnrype people.

1620 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1907) I. iii. 582 The teachinge of a Stranger..vnripe of yeres.

1645 E. Waller Wks. 53 In this Northerne tract our hoarser throats Utter unripe and ill constrained notes.

1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida ii. iii. sig. K4^v Yet Justice slumbers Ith' prosecution of his unripe Fate.

1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 133 Resolv'd his unripe Vengeance to defer The Royal Spy..Sought not the Garden.

1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule i. i. 33 Thy tender Innocence, and unripe Beauty.

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xxxiv. 241 I would advise them..not to speak too often, nor on subjects where they are ignorant or unripe.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III Prol. in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 237/1 The First Peter—he who was Like the shadow in the glass Of the second, yet unripe.

1847 R. W. Emerson Each & All 38 Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat.

1891 Spectator 28 Feb. To try unripe and ill-conceived schemes for improving their condition.

1931 V. Woolf Waves 273 I arrived all in a lather at her house..but did not marry her, being..unripe for that intensity.

1993 Locus June 67/3 Early in 1940, when I was the unripe editor of a couple of science-fiction magazines..an apple-cheeked cherub showed up in my office.

b. Of a person's age: not characterized by full physical or mental development; young, immature.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective]

tenderc1330

unripe1548

unripened1561

1548 N. Bodrugan Epitome Title to Souereigntie Scotl. sig. e.v The eleccion beyng vnfree and the yeres vnripe, eche of them almost of necessitee must hate other.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa3^v I whose vnryper yeares are yet vnfit For thing of weight.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3 These raw Essayes of my very unripe yeares.

1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iv. v. sig. F7 The old Experienc'd Courtiers kneel;..those of unriper age in solemn vows unite.

1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews II. iii. xxxiv. 422 His modesty, moderation, and wisdom, are the more entitled to commendation when we consider his unripe youth.

1800 W. Wordsworth Brothers 297 The boy..of unripe years, a stripling only.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xvii. 77 His unripe age Yet holds him from observance.

1906 Typographical Jrnl. Oct. 422/1 From the unripe years of twenty-four to the mature judgment and experience of forty-seven makes considerable difference in a man's makeup.

2012 S. C. M. Paine Wars for Asia ix. 294 He..died in October, allegedly of heart failure at the unripe age of fifty-two.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	unripe
释义	unripeadj. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈrʌɪp/, U.S. /ˌənˈraɪp/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and ripe adj., n.², and adv. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch onrijp (Dutch onrijp ) , Old High German unrīfi (compare German unreif ) < the Germanic base of un- prefix¹ + the Germanic base of ripe adj. Compare unriped adj. 1. Esp. of death: untimely, premature. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] > early or premature > of death unripeOE untimely1548 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 88 Inmatura, unripe deað. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 453 Inmatura funera : þa unripa [n] , pede [prob. read ungeripede], corpora, hræaw. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. cxii. 1260 ‘Þe bere schapeþ wiþ hire tonge þe brood þat sche bredeþ and bryngeþ forþ.’ And þis vnrype [L. immaturitas] whelpynge makeþ. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke vii. f. 69^v The unripe death of the young strieplyng. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vi. sig. R8^v Dorilaus, whose vnripe death doth yet..draw teares from vertuous eyes. 1633 P. Fletcher (title) Elisa, or An Elegie upon the Unripe Decease of S^r Antonie Irby. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. i. v. 179 If a child were begotten in that unripe and hasty consummation, and that child should be declared bastard, then the peace is to be disturbed. 1701 Epitaph in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 119 Death tane [sic] mee away in my virginity... Friends do lament my unripe fall. 1735 J. Dorman Female Rake: Epist. 12 What Numbers, Martia, has they cruel Breath Doom'd, by this Hero's Sword, to unripe Death! 1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell ii. ix. 159 Commending to him in the hour of unripe death The spirit so rent untimely from its house. 1998 R. Hoban Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer xxviii. 139 I don't think he's got rape and murder on his mind at the moment—he's just fondling my unripe death while mentally replaying his afternoon with you. 2. a. Of plant and animal products, esp. fruit: not yet ripe, not mature. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [adjective] > ripe or ripened > unripe or over-ripe unripec1275 semi-maturec1440 unripedc1500 untimely1535 unripened1561 overripened1594 immature1599 maum1691 under-ripe1707 overripe1769 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > [adjective] > not ripe unripec1275 unripened1561 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature > not matured by some (natural) process unripec1275 undigest1398 undigested1528 inconcoct1596 uncocted1601 inconcocted1605 inelaborated1623 indigested1624 incocted1645 unconcocted1649 incoctile1684 c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 320 Mi stefne is blod [read bold]..& þin is ilich one pipe Of one smale wode un ripe. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. vi. 13 As a fijge tree sendith his vnripe fyges. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 93 Rude [roset] is made of vnripe oile and of rosez. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Wisd. x. 7 The vnripe and vntymely frutes that growe vpon the trees. 1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle ii Unripe fruit will ask more shaking before they fall than those that are. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude 1 The dell, Bath'd by the mist, is fresh and delicate, As vernal corn field, or the unripe flax. 1884 J. Phin Dict. Apiculture 73 Unripe Honey.—Honey from which the water has not been sufficiently evaporated. 1939 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 3 Sept. in War within & Without (1980) 46 I sit on the steps and peel unripe chestnuts for Jon. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Aug. d8/3 The standby salad of unripe green papaya..is worth your attention. b. Of other natural objects and phenomena: not yet fully developed. Now rare. ΚΠ 1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 250 Erastus affirms..that..there hath been Unripe and Unconcocted Silver found in Mines. 1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope IV. 160 (note) The image is taken from half-formed unripe lightening, which streams along the sky. 1838 R. M. Martin Hist. E. India I. ii. iv. 522 Many parts, like the unripe limestone of Totala-kund, resist in a great measure the action of this powerful solvent. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Dis. Women 71 231 A sarcoma develops out of the rest of the unripe cells. 3. a. Of a person, state, intention, etc.: not fully developed, not yet mature. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature green?a1300 rawa1398 indigest1398 unmatured?a1425 unripea1500 unseasonable1515 unbuilded1519 inchoate1534 unripened1561 uncivil1572 unmellowed1573 unmanured1577 unblown1587 ungrown1593 unpolished1594 rudimental1597 rude1600 unsalted1602 unseasoned1602 unlicked1612 embryon1613 unbakeda1616 unbloweda1616 unfledged1615 unmellow1615 sappya1627 embryous1628 unconcocteda1631 unkneaded1633 immature1635 sucking1648 vacuous1651 embryo1659 unelaborate1663 unmature1673 unformed1689 undeveloped1736 infantile1772 uncultivated1796 unelaborated1817 fetal1820 embryotic1823 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 sophomoric1837 seedling1843 rudimentary1851 unwrought1869 juvenescent1875 vealy1890 under-developed1892 a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxviii. §147. 432 I ran in barnhede, that is vnrype til perfeccioun. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xix. f. cxlix^v That same stemme of the Judaical figtree, brought foorth grosse, vnsauery, and vnrype people. 1620 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1907) I. iii. 582 The teachinge of a Stranger..vnripe of yeres. 1645 E. Waller Wks. 53 In this Northerne tract our hoarser throats Utter unripe and ill constrained notes. 1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida ii. iii. sig. K4^v Yet Justice slumbers Ith' prosecution of his unripe Fate. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 133 Resolv'd his unripe Vengeance to defer The Royal Spy..Sought not the Garden. 1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule i. i. 33 Thy tender Innocence, and unripe Beauty. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xxxiv. 241 I would advise them..not to speak too often, nor on subjects where they are ignorant or unripe. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III Prol. in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 237/1 The First Peter—he who was Like the shadow in the glass Of the second, yet unripe. 1847 R. W. Emerson Each & All 38 Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat. 1891 Spectator 28 Feb. To try unripe and ill-conceived schemes for improving their condition. 1931 V. Woolf Waves 273 I arrived all in a lather at her house..but did not marry her, being..unripe for that intensity. 1993 Locus June 67/3 Early in 1940, when I was the unripe editor of a couple of science-fiction magazines..an apple-cheeked cherub showed up in my office. b. Of a person's age: not characterized by full physical or mental development; young, immature. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] tenderc1330 unripe1548 unripened1561 1548 N. Bodrugan Epitome Title to Souereigntie Scotl. sig. e.v The eleccion beyng vnfree and the yeres vnripe, eche of them almost of necessitee must hate other. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa3^v I whose vnryper yeares are yet vnfit For thing of weight. View more context for this quotation 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3 These raw Essayes of my very unripe yeares. 1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iv. v. sig. F7 The old Experienc'd Courtiers kneel;..those of unriper age in solemn vows unite. 1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews II. iii. xxxiv. 422 His modesty, moderation, and wisdom, are the more entitled to commendation when we consider his unripe youth. 1800 W. Wordsworth Brothers 297 The boy..of unripe years, a stripling only. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xvii. 77 His unripe age Yet holds him from observance. 1906 Typographical Jrnl. Oct. 422/1 From the unripe years of twenty-four to the mature judgment and experience of forty-seven makes considerable difference in a man's makeup. 2012 S. C. M. Paine Wars for Asia ix. 294 He..died in October, allegedly of heart failure at the unripe age of fifty-two. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.OE
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