different between qualified vs ripe

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kw?l.?.fa?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw?l.?.fa?d/
• Hyphenation: qual?i?fied

Adjective

qualified (comparative more qualified, superlative most qualified)

1. Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
2. Restricted or limited by conditions.

   Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work.

Antonyms

• non-qualified
• unqualified

Derived terms

• well-qualified

Translations

Verb

qualified

1. simple past tense and past participle of qualify

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?a?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English r?pe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *r?p?, from Proto-Germanic *r?pijaz, *r?piz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.

Alternative forms

• rype (obsolete)

Adjective

ripe (comparative riper, superlative ripest)

1. (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.
2. (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow

3. (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected

   Synonym: consummate

   • 1895, Henry James, The Altar of the Dead

     She was a feature of that piety, but even at the ripe stage of acquaintance in which they occasionally arranged to meet at a concert or to go together to an exhibition she was not a feature of anything else.
4. (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
5. Ready for action or effect; prepared.

   • while things were just ripe for a war

   • 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America

     I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.

   • 1988, Queensrÿche, Revolution Calling

     But the time is ripe for changes. There's a growing feeling. That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due

6. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
7. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,

     Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

8. (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
9. Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:malodorous

Antonyms

• unripe

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ripe (plural ripes)

1. (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.

Translations

Verb

ripe (third-person singular simple present ripes, present participle riping, simple past and past participle riped)

1. To ripen or mature
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 8

     [...] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / [...]

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.

Noun

ripe (plural ripes)

1. The bank of a river.

Related terms

• riparian

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ripe (third-person singular simple present ripes, present participle riping, simple past and past participle riped)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To search; to rummage.

Related terms

• rip

Anagrams

• Peri, peri, peri-, pier, prie

Finnish

Etymology

rippu +? -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ripe?/, [?ripe?(?)]
• Rhymes: -ipe
• Syllabification: ri?pe

Noun

ripe

1. (chiefly in the plural) the leftovers, remains

Declension

Anagrams

• peri, peri-, repi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ip/
• Homophones: ripes, ripent

Verb

ripe

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of riper
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of riper
3. second-person singular imperative of riper

Anagrams

• péri, pire, prie, prié

Italian

Noun

ripe f

1. plural of ripa

Anagrams

• peri, perì

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Of unknown origin (noun, sense 1); from the same origin as rive (noun sense 2 and verb)

Noun

ripe f or m (definite singular ripa or ripen, indefinite plural riper, definite plural ripene)

1. (nautical) gunwale, edge

   Synonyms: båtripe, esing

2. a scratch

Alternative forms

• rip

Verb

ripe (imperative rip, present tense riper, passive ripes, simple past ripa or ripet or ripte, past participle ripa or ripet or ript, present participle ripende)

1. to scratch, score
2. to strike (a match)

References

• “ripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ripe_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “ripe_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “ripe_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ri?p?/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin.

Alternative forms

• rip, ripa

Noun

ripe f (definite singular ripa, indefinite plural riper, definite plural ripene)

1. (nautical) gunwale, edge

   Synonyms: båtripe, esing

Etymology 2

Of the same origin as rive.

Alternative forms

• ripa

Verb

ripe (present tense ripar, past tense ripa, past participle ripa, passive infinitive ripast, present participle ripande, imperative rip)

1. to scratch, score
2. to strike (a match)

Noun

ripe f (definite singular ripa, indefinite plural riper, definite plural ripene)

1. a scratch

   Synonym: rip

References

• “ripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• pire, prei, reip

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *r?p?, from Proto-Germanic *r?piz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?ri?.pe/

Adjective

r?pe

1. ripe
2. mature

Declension

Antonyms

• unr?pe

Derived terms

• r?pnes

Descendants

• English: ripe

Portuguese

Verb

ripe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of ripar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of ripar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of ripar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of ripar