Experienced vs. Mature — What's the Difference?

Having gained knowledge or skill in a particular field over time

Having reached full natural growth or development

Having had experience in an activity or in life in general

Having reached a desired or final condition; ripe

Skilled or knowledgeable as the result of active participation or practice

Having or showing characteristics, such as patience and prudence, considered typical of well-balanced adulthood

Having experience and skill in a subject.

Suitable or intended for adults

Experient.

Composed of adults

Past participle of experience

Worked out fully by the mind; considered

Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.

Having reached the limit of its time; due

Having become knowledgeable or skillful from observation or participation

No longer subject to great expansion or development. Used of an industry, market, or product.

(Geology) Having reached maximum development of form. Used of streams and landforms.

To bring to full development; ripen.

To work out fully in the mind

To evolve toward or reach full development

To become due. Used of notes and bonds.

Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.

Brought to a state of complete readiness.

Profound; careful.

Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.

Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.

(intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).

To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.

(transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.

(transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.

To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.

(transitive) To make (someone) mature.

To reach the date when payment is due.

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.

Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.

Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.

Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.

To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.

To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.

Hence, to become due, as a note.

Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation;

Develop and work out fully in one's mind;

Become due for repayment;

Cause to ripen or develop fully;

Grow old or older;

Cause to ripen and discharge pus;

Characteristic of maturity;

Fully considered and perfected;

Having reached full natural growth or development;

Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used;

(of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination