Definition: 1. Behaving in a sensible way, like an adult. 2. Fully considered and perfected. 3. Develop and work out fully in one's mind. 4. Become due for repayment. 5. Cause to ripen or develop fully.
Use 'mature' in a sentence:
1. It is his most mature comedy yet.
2. These bonuses will be paid when your savings plan matures in ten years' time.
3. Our legal department requires a mature, competent secretary who will report to one senior lawyer and one assistant lawyer.
4. Clare has a mature and responsible attitude to work.
5. Mature flour has a longer shelf life.
6. The most serious is increasing mortality, especially of mature trees.
7. Jane is very mature for her age.
8. The people I met were intelligent, mature, personable.
9. His father's death forced him to mature fast.
10. Remember, they mature quickly and the weather's nice.
11. Now you have some birds that are quiet mature, quite capable, almost as soon as they hatch.
12. The caterpillars tunnel into the fruit to grow and mature.
13. This cheese is matured for at least 10 months producing a nutty, well rounded flavour.
14. They are emotionally mature and should behave responsibly.
15. Grate some mature cheddar cheese.
16. They told me I was wise and mature beyond my 18 years, and I believed them.
17. Their songwriting has matured.
18. You and I are mature, freethinking adults.
19. There is usually a good deal of turnover in species composition, even in a mature community.
20. The eggs hatched and the chicks matured.
21. Together these eight companies operated as a mature oligopoly, essentially miming the entire market.
22. They intend to allocate more places to mature students this year.
23. When the trees matured they were cut in certain areas.
24. A mature cow has horns.
25. Girls become sexually mature earlier than boys.
26. It's a team packed with experienced and mature professionals.
27. The whisky had been distilled in 1926 and sat quietly maturing until 1987.
28. As time goes by, he became mature.
29. Nevertheless, mature natural environments are usually in equilibrium.
30. Hopefully after three years at university I will have matured.
31. There are several mature apple trees in her garden.
32. That young man is very mature for his age.
33. The plants mature quickly, produce seeds, and then die.
34. Asking for help is a sensible and mature thing to do.
35. Take away their algae, and spotted salamander babies hatch smaller and less mature.
36. Some adolescents might be more sexually mature and provocative than others.
37. I thought you had matured enough not to be giggly and silly about serious art.
38. Unlike wine, brandy matures only in wood, not glass.
39. You will learn what to expect as your child matures physically.
40. Mature butterflies retain the glycosides in a mature monarch butterfly could be used to determine its place of origin.
41. The two claws of the mature American lobster are decidedly different from each other.
42. Having spent the past year as an exchange student in Hong Kong, Linda appears more mature than those of her age.
43. He wanted to introduce mature people with leadership qualities.
44. She was a mature lady with dyed red hair and a roguish grin.
45. But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery.
46. I'll let you have an answer after mature consideration.
47. Technology in this field has matured considerably over the last decade.
48. These plants are then pollinated and allowed to mature and produce seed.
49. This particular breed of cattle matures early.
50. He has matured a great deal over the past year.
51. Children do not use inflections such as are used in mature adult speech.
