basic vs mature

basic

noun
  • An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. 

  • A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. 

  • Basic training. 

adj
  • Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional. 

  • Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7. 

  • Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool. 

  • Necessary, essential for life or some process. 

mature

verb
  • To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe. 

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

  • To make (someone) mature. 

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

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

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

  • To reach the date when payment is due. 

adj
  • Brought to a state of complete readiness. 

  • Profound; careful. 

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

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

How often have the words basic and mature occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )