The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word AGES which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Matures crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AGES | 71 % | 4 |
| RIPENS | 19 % | 6 |
| GROWSUP | 6 % | 7 |
| FLOWERS | 1 % | 7 |
| GETSOLDER | 1 % | 9 |
| RIPES | 1 % | 5 |
| COMESDUE | 1 % | 8 |
| GROWS | 1 % | 5 |
Why may AGES be the right solution?
The word "matures" is a verb that means to grow or develop over time. The answer "AGES" fits because it is a verb that means to grow older or progress through time.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Matures
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- full-grown
- adult
- grownup
- full-blown
- maturate
- aged
- ripe
- age
- overripe
- mellow
- nubile
- big
Crossword Answer definitions
AGES noun- The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
- The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
- One of the stages of life.
- The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- A great period in the history of the Earth.
- A period of one hundred years; a century.
- The people who live during a particular period.
- A generation.
- A long time.
- A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
- The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
- That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
- Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.
- To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- To categorize by age.
- To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
- A long time.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result AGES
- Bronze and Iron
- Dark or Middle follower
- Many moons
- Matures into a SAGE?
- Mellows
- Quite a while
- Gets older
- Gets on
- Iron and Ice
- Matures
More clues leading to the result RIPENS
- Ages
- Yellows, bananawise
- Matures
- Turns edible
- Prepares to be picked
- Comes of age, so to speak
- Nears the harvesting stage
- Reaches perfection
- Turns red, perhaps
- Approaches maturity
More clues leading to the result GROWSUP
More clues leading to the result FLOWERS
- Garden items hidden in this puzzle's theme answers
- Mother's Day gifts
- Pinks or lilacs.
- Hearts' companions.
- Develops.
- Matures
- What to say it with
- They're usually found in beds
- Blooms
- Daisies and dahlias