matureとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro.

形容詞

mature (comparative maturer または more mature, superlative maturest または most mature)

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

   She is quite mature for her age.

2. Brought to a state of complete readiness.

   a mature plan

3. Profound; careful.

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

4. (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
5. (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.

   mature content

同意語

• (grown up in terms of physical appearance): adult, grown; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
• (grown up in terms of behaviour または thinking): adultish, grown up; see also Thesaurus:mature
• (suitable for adults only): adult; see also Thesaurus:for adults

反意語

• (grown up): childish, immature
• (profound): superficial

派生語

• maturation
• maturely
• matureness
• maturity
• sexually mature

語源 2

From French maturer (“to mature”), from Latin mātūrō.

動詞

mature (三人称単数 現在形 matures, 現在分詞 maturing, 過去形および過去分詞形 matured)

1. (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete または of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
   • 1797, Mr. Harrison, “A Biographical Sketch of Hogarth”, in The Comick Magazine‎^[1], volume 1, London: Harrison and Co., page 3:

     […] his originality, in the mean time, was maturing to perfection.

   Synonyms: develop, grow, progress, ripen

2. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
   • 1670, Evelyn, John, chapter 35, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-trees, London, page 246:

     […] Trees […] have alwayes Fruit upon them, ripe, or preparing to mature;

   Synonyms: ripen, ripen up

3. (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development or completion.
   • 1667, Milton, John, Paradise Lost‎^[2], book 1, lines 659-660:

     […] But these thoughts
     Full Counsel must mature:

   • 1768, Hoole, John, Cyrus: A Tragedy‎^[3], act I, London: T. Davies, page 12:

     […] much it now
     Imports they should be still deceiv’d, till time
     Matures our enterprize;

   • 1853, Gaskell, Elizabeth, Cranford, New York: Harper, Chapter 13, p. 262,^[4]:

     […] I did not interrupt her, I was so busy maturing a plan I had had in my mind for some days […]

   • 1953, Bellow, Saul, chapter 8, in The Adventures of Augie March‎^[5], New York: Viking, page 143:

     […] the long clean groove of her upper lip was ready to go into motion, as if she were going to break her silence with something momentous and long-matured; explain love to me, perhaps.

4. (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
   • 1782, Cowper, William, “Charity”, in Poems‎^[6], London: J. Johnson, page 202:

     […] a ship well freighted with the stores
     The sun matures on India’s spicy shores,

   • 2009, Findlay, Hugh, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits‎^[7]:

     There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed.

   Synonym: ripen

5. (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.

   Synonyms: age, develop, grow up; see also Thesaurus:to age

6. (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
   • 1776, Cowley, Hannah, The Runaway‎^[8], London: Prologue:

     Then Tom shall have his kite, and Fan new dollies,
     Till time matures them for important follies.

   • 1970, Davies, Robertson, chapter 2, in Fifth Business‎^[9], part 6, Toronto: Macmillan, page 103:

     […] what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured me;

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:make older

7. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.

同意語

• maturate

派生語

• maturable
• mature up