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 |
| RIPES | 1 % | 5 |
| COMESDUE | 1 % | 8 |
| GROWS | 1 % | 5 |
| FLOWERS | 1 % | 7 |
| GETSOLDER | 1 % | 9 |
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 RIPES
More clues leading to the result COMESDUE
More clues leading to the result GROWS
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