RIPER

Not as immature

• Closer to fruition

• Closer to its prime

• Closer to maturity

• Less firm, maybe

• Less green

• Less green, as a fruit

• Less green, perhaps

• Like red peppers, vis-

• More advanced, in a way

• More aged

• More aged, as cheese

• More apt to be picked

• More auspicious

• More developed

• More edible, as a fruit

• More fleshy, perhaps

• More fully developed

• More mature

• More mature, as a melon

• More mellow

• More ready

• More ready for plucking

• More ready to be picked

• More ready to pick

• More red, as a tomato

• More red, maybe

• More suitable

• More suitable for eating, perhaps

• Not as green

• Not as green, perhaps

• Readier to pick

• Readier to serve

• Redder, as a tomato

• Redder, perhaps

• Relatively ready

• Softer, as a banana

• Yellower, as a banana