Enter a clue or pattern or both:
The Clue
More auspicious (5 letter answer)
The Answer
RIPER
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Notes
The answer RIPER is common and appears about once every 350 puzzles.
Related Clues
Closer to maturity
Less green
More aged
More developed
More mature
More mellow
More ready
More suitable
Not as green
Redder, perhaps
Redder, as a tomato
Relatively ready
Closer to its prime
More fully developed
More red, maybe
More red, as a tomato
Not so callow
Not so green
Definition
RIPE as an adjective:
1. (ripe, mature) = fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines"
2. fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for revolution"
3. (good, right, ripe) = most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes"
4. at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; "a ripe mind"
5. (advanced, ripe) = far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"