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# unripe

adjective (unripe)

«unripe» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Unripe means not ready to eat yet: an unripe banana is still green. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#m1)
2. Unripe fruit is often hard and sour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x1)
- She picked only the ripe apples and left 5 unripe ones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x2)
- A third of the bananas are unripe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x3)
- How many are not unripe? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x4)
- Unripe strawberries are white or green. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x5)
- Put unripe pears in a paper bag to ripen them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x6)
- Don't eat unripe plums; they are sour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x7)
- The persimmon is as hard as stone when it is unripe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x8)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unripe/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «unripe» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«unripe» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/unripe.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «unripe» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unripe/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«unripe» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/unripe.html) on Mova free.