[ adj ] too ripe and beginning to turn soft <adj.all>
Overripe \O"ver*ripe"\, a. Matured to excess. --Milton.
Who could have gone into a frenzy over either the overripe Lyudmila Semenyaka or the oversold Nina Ananiashvili in the third act of "Raymonda" after having witnessed the majestically grave Margot Fonteyn in the same work?
A bright, red, overripe tomato.
His house, now split open like an overripe melon, is about 50 yards from where it was last week.
The prematurely bald Kenneth has become a harridan, overripe, decayed and unpleasant, like an old mango.