unripe

Everyday

1. Unripe means not ready to eat yet: an unripe banana is still green. tree →
2. Unripe fruit is often hard and sour. tree →

In the lessons

Maths: the part of fruit not yet ripe, taken from the total: ripe = total − unripe. Science: fruit ripens over time; some fruit ripens after picking. Health: unripe fruit can give you a tummy ache.

Examples

• Of 30 tomatoes, 8 are unripe. tree →
• She picked only the ripe apples and left 5 unripe ones. tree →
• A third of the bananas are unripe. tree →
• How many are not unripe? tree →
• Unripe strawberries are white or green. tree →
• Put unripe pears in a paper bag to ripen them. tree →
• Don't eat unripe plums; they are sour. tree →
• The persimmon is as hard as stone when it is unripe. tree →

Note

Prefix un- (not) + ripe. Splits a set: ripe = total − unripe. Trap: «not unripe» means ripe.

In Jewish tradition

In Job it is a picture of the wicked person whose life is cut off early, like a vine dropping its unripe grapes.

Interpretation. Tradition reads this as the idea that the wicked do not finish their days in success, though Job's friends used the picture wrongly against him.

Examples

• He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. (Writings JOB.15.33, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Prefix un- (not) + ripe. Splits a set: ripe = total − unripe. Trap: «not unripe» means ripe.