Word Finder - mature

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

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She is quite mature for her age.

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Brought to a state of complete readiness.

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a mature plan

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Profound; careful.

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

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

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Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.

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mature content

He's a mature male.

Their marriage had finally blossomed into mature love.

His friends had always been older, probably because he was so mature for his age.

His logic and acceptance of the deformity was amazingly positive and mature for a 9-year-old.

He thought she wasn't mature enough to be a mother?

Birds sang in the mature trees that ringed the deck and there was a country smell of spring.

This book, her first mature experiment in writing, settles the question of her ability to write.

Did he think of her as a mature female?

The words "mature male" crossed her mind again.

It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak.

The post-exilic priestly spirit represents a tendency which is absent from the Judaean Deuteronomic book of Kings but is fully mature in the later, and to some extent parallel, book of Chronicles (q.v.).

Indeed, the Cretan system, like that of Sparta, appears to have aimed at training up the young, and controlling them, as well as the citizens of more mature age, in all their habits and relations of life.

The mature dragon-fly nymph, for example, makes its way out of the water in which the early stages have been passed and, clinging to some water-plant, undergoes the final ecdysis that the imago may emerge into the air.

The Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis, that the hierarchical law in its complete form in the Pentateuch stands at the close and not at the beginning of biblical history, that this mature Judaism was the fruit of the 5th century B.C. and not a divinely appointed institution at the exodus (nearly ten centuries previously), has won the recognition of almost all Old Testament scholars.

It wasn't that I didn't want to be associated with you, I just wasn't mature enough to take on the responsibility.

A person never got old enough or mature enough that they were no longer capable of making a poor choice.

The common mushroom (Agaricus campestris) is propagated by spores, the fine black dust seen to be thrown off when a mature specimen is laid on white paper or a white dish; these give rise to what is known as the "spawn" or mycelium, which consists of whitish threads permeating dried dung or similar substances, and which, when planted in a proper medium, runs through the mass, and eventually develops the fructification known as the mushroom.

Normally the medusae are liberated in quite an immature state; they swim away, feed, grow and become adult mature el individuals.

The young comedian's puerile jokes were not appreciated by the mature audience.

Anything big enough to make a mature elk bolt was enough to concern him – including a bull elk.

But although mature study has established the truth of this proposition it was not always so.

My call was forwarded to a female with a mature sounding voice.

Perhaps Erysichthon may be explained as the personification of the labourer, who by the systematic cultivation and tilling of the soil endeavours to force the crops, instead of allowing them to mature unmolested as in the good old times.

They mature slowest of all Immortals, but when they hit certain points in angel years, they jump to the next human stage of maturity, Helga said.

In every mature period of art it will be found that, however much the technical rules may be collected in one special category, every artistic category has a perfect interaction with all the others; and this is nowhere more perfectly shown than when the art is in its simplest possible form of maturity.

The close of Bonapartes victorious campaign against the Archduke Charles in 1797 enabled him to mature those designs respecting Venice which are detailed in the article NAPOLEON.

They are liberated in a mature condition, and probably live but a short time, merely sufficient to spread the species.

In this it remains until the completion of the transformation into the sexually mature insect, which then emerges from the case, leaving the pupal integument behind.

It is evident that the same method may be followed with other sorts which continue only a short time in a mature state.

His love for Natasha, Antichrist, Napoleon, the invasion, the comet, 666, L'Empereur Napoleon, and L'russe Besuhof--all this had to mature and culminate, to lift him out of that spellbound, petty sphere of Moscow habits in which he felt himself held captive and lead him to a great achievement and great happiness.

It makes me feel small when you keep things from me - like you don't trust me, or you think I'm not mature enough to handle it.

In that moment he became more than a mature male – more than Alex.

Although some attain their full development in the body of a single host - in this respect differing from all other Entozoa - the majority do not become sexually mature until after their transference from an "intermediate" to a "definitive" host.

In the preface, Lamarck says that the work was written in 1776, and presented to the Academy in 1780; but it was not published before 2794, and at that time it presumably expressed Lamarck's mature views.

In the spruce firs (Picea), the cones are pendent when mature and their scales persistent; the leaves are arranged all round the shoots, though the lower ones are sometimes directed laterally.

Ahead was nothing but a narrow dirt road lined with mature Oak trees and brush.

A mature bull weighs over a ton and can be six feet or more at the hump.

A number of larvae of Lepidoptera feed on the leaves - the remedy is to capture the mature insects when possible.

In some cicads the mature nymph ceases to feed and remains quiescent within a pillar-shaped earthen chamber.

Let us illustrate Wagner's mature use of Leitmotif by the theme which happens to be associated with Alberich's ring.

The emperor Theodosius came to London from Boulogne to mature his plan for the restoration of the tranquillity of the province.

The larvae known as caddis-worms are aquatic. The mature females lay their eggs in the water, and the newly-hatched larvae provide themselves with cases made of various particles such as grains of sand, pieces of wood or leaves stuck together with silk secreted from the salivary glands of the insect.

But it still presents the Europeans with an opportunity to recast the relationship - if they are mature enough to seize it.

The fine example of a Victorian Rectory dated 1876 stands in secluded grounds with mature trees which provide a haven for wildlife.

Let us take the next, more mature, work by Kautsky, which was also largely devoted to a refutation of opportunist errors.

Rosebay willow-herb Chamerion angustifolium; male stage When the flower opens the anthers are beginning to mature and shed pollen.

The appearance, using Paul 's fabulous mature Brazilian rosewood, is absolutely stunning !

Q. Is the application process the same for mature applicants?

A mature forest of Linux trees lacking little new tree saplings growing all around them wo n't be a forest for long.

They often articulate in mature, self-reflexive ways the changes they have undergone.