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. Partially displaced ripe, from 古期英語 rīpe (“ripe, mature”).

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