the condition of being very old; used especially to talk about someone who has a long healthy life: I’m sure he’ll live to a ripe old age.
Is ripe old age an idiom?
a very old age. Smith died last night, but he lived to a ripe old age—99. … All the Smiths seem to reach a ripe old age.
What is the opposite of ripe age?
“a man of advanced age”; “advanced in years”; “a ripe old age”; “the ripe age of 90” Antonyms: immature, unripened, early, green, unaged, middle, unready, unripe, inopportune.