Consummate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkɒnsəmət/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Consummate is an adjective meaning Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
Meaning
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
More Meanings
- Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
- Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.
- Consummated.
- (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
- (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
- (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.
Example Sentences
a consummate sergeant
A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.
Word Forms
- consummates
- consummating
- consummated
Synonyms for consummate
Depending on context, synonyms include absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utter.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include perfect, thoroughgoing, skilled, masterly, utter, masterful.
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