Consummate

/ˈkɒnsəmət/ · adjective

Meaning

Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute..

Definitions by Sense

1. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
2. Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
3. Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.
4. Consummated.
5. (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
6. (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
7. (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
8. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

Example Sentences

There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.

A man of perfect and consummate virtue.

A sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him.

[…] Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that […]

Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon

England's first-half display was consummate in its control, Italy made to look decidedly average as Rice and Jude Bellingham controlled affairs and Kane made history.

a consummate sergeant

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, […] ; thus it is in his power to control success.

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• more consummate
• most consummate
• consummates
• consummating
• consummated

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