Consummate
['kɒnsjʊmeɪt;-sə-] or ['kɑnsəmət]
Definition
(verb.) make perfect; bring to perfection.
(verb.) fulfill sexually; 'consummate a marriage'.
(adj.) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; 'a consummate artist'; 'consummate skill'; 'a masterful speaker'; 'masterful technique'; 'a masterly performance of the sonata'; 'a virtuoso performance' .
Typist: Xavier--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.
(v. t. ) To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
Typed by Leona
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Complete, finish, perfect, accomplish, compass, effect, perform, achieve, execute, do, carry out, bring about, work out.
a. Complete, perfect, finished.
Checker: Rudolph
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Complete, perfect, execute, finish, accomplish, conclude, seal, end
ANT:Neglect, drop, interrupt, nullify, undo, baffle, frustrate, mar, defeat, spoil
SYN:Perfect, egregious, excellent, complete, finished
ANT:Imperfect, rude, common, mediocre, faulty, defective, ordinary
Checker: Presley
Definition
v.t. to raise to the highest point: to perfect or finish: to make marriage legally complete by sexual intercourse.—adj. complete supreme perfect of its kind.—adv. Consumm′ately perfectly.—n. Consummā′tion act of completing: perfection: conclusion of life or of the universe: the subsequent intercourse which makes a marriage legally valid.—adj. Consumm′ative.—n. Con′summator.—adj. Consumm′atory.
Typed by Debora
Examples
- His judgment, activity, and consummate bravery, justified their choice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The whole of that family are the most solemnly conceited and consummate blockheads! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Neither your's nor any man's death is needed to consummate the series of my being, and accomplish that which must be done; but it requires my own. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Now it is attended from the day of its planting until it reaches the lips of the consumer by contrivances of consummate skill to fit it for its destined purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- His father must have been a most consummate villain, ever to have such a son. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- And that was another most consummate vagabond! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- General Bowen, I saw, was very anxious that the surrender should be consummated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She must smash it, it must be smashed before her ecstasy was consummated, fulfilled for ever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation was consummated or not; but not so all of them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A few days are past, and the great event of Amelia's life is consummated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Men grew from infancy to old age, their children's children had married and loved and worked while the social change we speak of as the industrial revolution was being consummated. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Death is a great consummation, a consummating experience. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He knew, too, that they seldom lost much time before consummating the fiendish purpose of their captures. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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