as in immature
lacking in adult experience or maturity
unripe and unprepared recruits who were sent into battle as cannon fodder
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Recent Examples of unripe
Papaya trees dot their small cattle farm on which the property sits, so Rodríguez takes advantage of the vegetal unripe fruits in a twist on classic Mexican jalapeños en escabeche.
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Ingrid Merary Rodríguez Luna, Saveur, 26 Feb. 2025
Flavors include unripe pears and the mid palate has a honeyed varnish.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
These early albums are a little unripe in places, but there are signs of the writer Carpenter would become.
—Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2025
For centuries Champagne producers set large crops, harvested unripe fruit and bolstered their lackadaisical vineyard efforts by adding copious amounts of sugar (dosage), with uniformity and consistency being the goal.
—Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for unripe
Ingrid Merary Rodríguez Luna, Saveur, 26 Feb. 2025
Flavors include unripe pears and the mid palate has a honeyed varnish.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
These early albums are a little unripe in places, but there are signs of the writer Carpenter would become.
—Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2025
For centuries Champagne producers set large crops, harvested unripe fruit and bolstered their lackadaisical vineyard efforts by adding copious amounts of sugar (dosage), with uniformity and consistency being the goal.
—Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for unripe
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unripe
Adjective
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Insecure endpoints, poor management and generally immature cybersecurity practices created an ecosystem ripe with exploitable gaps.—
Thomas Ryd,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Moment Makers Group All cycles involved fresh oocytes (immature eggs found in the ovaries) from young donors (average age 26.1), frozen sperm from male partners and a single blastocyst embryo transfer.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
Adjective
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Injury and burnout were adult problems, far from my adolescent horizon.—
Ellen O'Connell Whittet
June 25,
Literary Hub,
25 June 2025
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Katie Hurley, a child and adolescent psychotherapist and senior clinical advisor for The Jed Foundation, encourages parents to read the labels of any supplements or protein powders their sons are currently using or interested in trying.—
Ashleigh N. DeLuca,
Parents,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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The core group of young professionals, both men and women aged 25-35, is joined by the next gen category of those age 18-24, now about a quarter of the business.—
Tim Newcomb,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Their entry into the US market has charted a similar trajectory to that of vapes, surging among young people especially.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Benin explains that Drizzle is made with small unripened olives, harvested in the fall before the rainy season in Spain, where the olives are sourced, so there’s minimal water and oil inside.—
Andrew Watman,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Equally delicious is her banana cou cou, smashed unripened banana topped with lamb gravy.—
Patrick Scott,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Unripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unripe. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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