When fruit or vegetables are ripe, they are ready to eat — sweet enough, soft enough, at their best. Overripe means they have gone past that point and become too soft. The banana is brown and mushy; the peach bruises if you barely hold it; the tomato collapses in your hand. You can still cook with overripe fruit — banana bread loves it — but eating it as it is can feel too sweet, too soft, a bit past nice. People use this mainly of food from plants, not of meat. Shops mark the price down; some cooks look for it on purpose. Though actually, overripe is not the same as rotten. Rotten has gone bad and you throw it away. Overripe is still food, just too far along.

過熟的（水果蔬菜過了正好吃的時候，軟掉了；還不是腐爛）