Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UN-RIPE', a.

1. Not ripe; not mature; not brought to a state of perfection; as, unripe fruit. Shak.
2. Not seasonable; not yet proper. He fix'd his unripe vengeance to defer. Dryden.
3. Not prepared; not completed; as, an unripe scheme.
4. Too early; as, the unripe death of Dorilaus. [Unusual.] Sidney.