overripe
/əʊvəˈrʌɪp
/adjective
1Too ripe; past its best: overripe tomatoes...
- My lips were split like a pair of overripe tomatoes.
- For example, you can make a simple but tasty sauce from overripe cherry tomatoes, onions and garlic.
- Some crops need to be picked everyday: zucchini grows gigantic if left on the vine and cherry tomatoes get overripe.
1.1(Especially of an artistic work) exaggerated or overblown: an overripe melodrama...
- Outside the recent and welcome burlesque revival, the concept of bawdy humour - something that's proud to be naughty and a little overripe in the interest of a plain old good time - has been largely absent from Toronto stages.
- As for his poetry, it may be a little overripe in places.
- And above all, what if those bands aren't the overripe gods of the sixties and seventies, but the inescapable products of them, either in worship or in reaction or both?