adjective
definition
Excessively ripe; spoiled; gone bad.
Examples of overripe in a Sentence
The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit.
Overripe strawberries will be dull and dark, with limp stems.
Green trees in every shade clumped together like heads of overripe broccoli.
Taking the carbon exhumed by industrial combustion from the geologic past and stacking it into overripe living woodpiles is an approach of questionable wisdom.
Examples of wine qualities that may overwhelm delicate flavors in fish, pasta with white sauce, and white meat poultry include tannins, full-body, overripe, or high alcohol.
With 2003 scorching most of Europe, the wine is impressive compared to other overripe, flabby wines tasting more like prune juice recently tasted from the same region.
Slightly overripe fruit tends to enhance the specific taste of the wine.
When buying navel oranges, select those with small sized navels as larger navels indicate that they were overripe when picked.
Clean up fallen leaves, spent blossoms, and overripe fruit from orchard trees.