Consummate

Definition: Consummate

Consummate

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance".

3. Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense".

Verb

1. Of marriages.

2. Make perfect; bring to perfection.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "consummate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Consummate

Completeness

Regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free; abundant; (sufficient).

Completion

Verb: effect, effectuate; accomplish, achieve, compass, consummate, hammer out; bring to maturity, bring to perfection; perfect, complete; elaborate.

Greatness

Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute).

Perfection

Adjective: perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy; (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus; consummate; (complete); finished.

Skill

Adverb: skillfully; Adjective: well; artistically; with skill, with consummate skill; secundum artem, suo Marte; to the best of one's abilities; (exertion).

Crosswords: Consummate

How you play my emotions with consummate skill (Affair Of The Heart; performing artist: Rick Springfield)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Consummate Religion (reference)

• Profitable Public Speaking: The Consummate Rules, With Case Histories and Anecdotes Plus a Realistic Home Study Series for Continual Practice (reference)

• The Christian Religion: Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Part Iii, the Revelatory, Consummate, Absolute Religion (reference)

• The Consummate Canadian: A Biography of Samuel Weir Q.C (reference)

• The Consummate Cigar Book: A Three Dimensional Reference Guide (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To impose his galleys upon these two dazzling children, or to consummate by himself his irremediable engulfment

With consummate skill he has set his trap with a hair springe to catch comfort and independence, and then, as he turned away, got his own leg into it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Honduras

While it may take a little longer than is customary in the U.S. to consummate a business relationship, the investment in time can pay off in long-lasting and mutually profitable alliances. (references)

Women

Yemen

She must live with him at the place stipulated in the contract, consummate the marriage, and not leave the home without his consent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "consummate": consummate skill ♦ with consummate skill. Additional references.

Albanian

plotësoj (amplify, appease, complement, complete, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, flesh, fulfil, fulfill, grant, gratify, indulge, make good, make out, make up, meet, perfect, perform, process, realize, refill, replenish, satisfy, supplement, supply), përmbush (accomplish, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, perform), konsumoj martesën, i përsosur (crowned, fine, flawless, indefectible, nonpareil, slap up), i përkryer (absolute, accomplished, blithering, perfect, proper, top-hole, watertight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كامل (absolute, all out, complete, completed, concluded, entire, essential, finalized, finished, full, full blown, full scale, integral, integrate, out and out, outright, perfect, plenary, plumb, rounded off, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unqualified, utter, whole), ‏ماهر (adept, adroit, astute, clever, deft, ingenious, nimble, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, sound, subtle), ‏حقق (achieve, attain, check, effectuate, fulfil, fulfill, get on, implement, inquire, obtain, prize, probe, produce, quest, realize, search closely, see, slate, take, work out), ‏أتم (accomplish, achieve, cap, compass, fulfil, fulfill, negotiate, perfect, realize, round off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съвършен (finished, full, ideal, indefectible, masterly, out and out, outright, perfect, right-down, spheral, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, transcendent, unexceptionable, very), сключвам (clench, conclude, contract, interlock, strike), консумирам (consume), опитен (adept, capable, empiric, empirical, experienced, experimental, expert, good, grey, laboratory, old, old hand, perfect, pilot, practised, proficient, ripe, scientific, skilful, skilled, skillful, sophisticated, thorough-paced, versed, veteran, whizbang), ненадминат (all-time, egregious, matchless, surpassing, unapproachable, unbeatable, unbeaten, unbroken, unequalled, unmatched, unrivalled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed), изпечен (arch, arrant, hard bitten, perfect, practised), достигам съвършенство, довеждам докрай (carry through), довеждам до съвършенство. (various references)

Chinese 

完善 (Consummated, Consummating, Perfect, Perfected, Perfecting). (various references)

Czech

suverénní (cocksure, confident, sovereign), dovršit (accomplish, top, top up), dokonalý (accomplished, cast iron, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, perfect, proficient, thorough, unqualified, utter, very). (various references)

Farsi 

تمام وکمال (Thoroughgoing, Well, Wholly), عروسی کردن (Espouse), انجام دادن (Accomplish, Achieve, Administer, Complete, Do, Implement, Pay, Perform), رسیده (Full, Grown, Headed, Mellow, Ripe), بپایان رساندن (Conclude, End, Terminate), بوصال رسیدن , بحدکمال . (various references)

French

complet (complement, complete, comprehensive, costume), compétent (cognizant, competent), achever (compass, conclude), accomplir. (various references)

German

vollendet (accomplished, accomplishes, completed, consummates, finished, finishes, perfect, perfectly, ultimate, unmitigated), vollenden (accomplish, bring to an end, complete, finalize, to accomplish, to achieve, to complete, to consummate, to finish). (various references)

Greek 

αποτελειώνω (complete, get the wind up, make up), τέλειοσ (accomplished, arrant, complete, finished, outright, perfect, precious, stark, straight out), ολοκληρώνω (accomplish, complete, integrate, top off). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�'שים (carry out, fulfill, implement, materialize, realize). (various references)

Hungarian

teljes (absolute, absorbing, all-out, at full speed, bag of tricks, clear, complement, complete, crass, entire, exhaustive, fore-and-aft, full statement, full-blood, global, gross, integrate, integrated, out and out, perfect, plenary, Plumb, pukka, regular, restitution of all things, right-down, round, setout, to come in for one's full share of sg, to pelt, to the full, to the top of one's bent, to transmogrify, total, undivided, utter, very, whole), tökéletes (absolute, accomplished, beyond all praise, can be hardly improved on, complete, exquisite, finished, impeccable, perfect, pukka, rank, regular, thorough, utter, very), legmagasabb fokú. (various references)

Indonesian

sempurna (complete, infallible, perfect). (various references)

Italian

consumato (expends, threadbare, worn out), completare (accomplish, complete, eke, finish, integrate, mature, supplement), perfetto (absolute, accomplished, complete, dead, faultless, finished, flawless, perfect, prize, pure, tiptop). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

巨悪 (consummate villain, great evil). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょあく (consummate villain, great evil). (various references)

Korean 

완� �한 (Complete, CPL, integral, Perfect, utter). (various references)

Manx

cruinn (accurate, circular, circumstantial, compact, detailed, exact, round, scrupulous, spherical, strict, unambigous), cooilleeney (achieve, achievement, acquit, acquittal, avenge, compensate, compensation, consummation, execute, fulfil, fulfilment, punishment, satisfaction, satisfy, vengeance). (various references)

Pig Latin

onsummatecay.(various references)

Portuguese

consumar, consumado (inevitable, masterly, ripe, sciential, scientific, thoroughgoing, thoroughpaced, unmitigated), realizar (accomplish, achieve, actualize, attain, celebrate, create, do, effect, execute, fulfil, fulfill, materialize, perform, produce, realize, render, transact, work out), perfeito (absolute, accomplished, bijou, classic, classical, clean, close, crowned, exact, finished, flawless, handsome, impeccable, masterly, perfect, precious, sculpturesque, sound, thorough, thoroughpaced, throughly, unalloyed, undeniable, unexceptionable, unmitigated), executar (achieve, carry out, despatch, dispatch, effect, execute, fulfil, fulfill, implement, obey, paint, perform), acabar (accomodate, buzz, carry through, cease, come to an end, conclude, end, expire, finish, phase out, round, squelch, terminate). (various references)

Romanian

sãvârşi (accomplish, achieve, commit, do, effect, execute, finish, perform, perpetrate, terminate), perfect (a1, absolute, accomplished, all right, blameless, classic, faultless, flawless, good enough, okay, out and out, perfect, perfectly, pure, quite so, right-down, ripe, that's fine, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, tiptop, total, unimpeachable), excelent (a1, best, capital, champion, clinking, crack, excellent, excellently, exquisite, fine, first rate, golden, great, noble, passing, roaring, special, splendid, that's capital, tiptop, topping), desãvârşit (absolute, accomplished, blank, complete, faultless, finished, full-fledged, out and out, perfect, perfectly, pure, right-down, stark, thorough, thoroughpaced), desãvârşi (accomplish, achieve, complete, develop, do, finish, perfect, terminate, work up), împlini (accomplish, achieve, be, complete, fill, fulfil, grant, justify, satisfy, serve). (various references)

Russian 

законченный (accomplished, complete, crowned, finished, perfect, thorough-paced). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

savršen (downright, perfect, word-perfect), potpun (absolute, complete, crass, downright, outright, plenary, stark, thorough-paced, total, unmixed, utter, uttermost). (various references)

Spanish

consumar (accomplish, achieve, perform), consumado (accomplished, consumated, finished, out and out, perfect, rightdown, spent), completo (absolute, all around, all round, clear, complete, downright, entire, finished, full, inclusive, integral, omnibus, outright, overall, perfect, plain, plenary, Plumb, rank, round, sheer, stark, thorough, total, unalloyed, utter, whole), completar (come, complete, follow up, full, make up, piece out, reman, top off, top up), usar (consume, draw on, draw upon, employ, expend, explode, go through, make use of, to use, turn to account, use, use up, utilize, wear, wear out). (various references)

Swedish

utsökt (choice, dainty, delicate, delicious, excellent, exquisite, exquisitely, fine, picked), fullborda (accomodate, accomplish, complete, end, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, terminate), fulländad (accomplished, essential, finished, ideal). (various references)

Turkish

tamamlamak (bring to completion, button up, catch up on, clear up, complement, complete, do, eke out, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, go through with, implement, integrate, perfect, round off, round out, serve out, supplement, take up, work off, work up), tamamına erdirmek, tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), mükemmelleştirmek (finish, perfect), mükemmel (accomplished, all around, alpha plus, ambrosial, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, cool, copybook, Dandy, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famous, famously, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, immense, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), eksiksiz (complete, factual, in full, perfect, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, without defect). (various references)

Ukrainian

чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), завершувати (accomplish, cap, carry out, close, conclude, finish off, fulfil, integrate, perfect, round, ultimate, wind up), здійснити шлюбні стосунки, довершений (accomplished). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tuyệt vời quá đỗi, tột bực (extreme, extremely, utmost, uttermost), t� i (apt, talent), quá xá (egregious, inordinate), quá chừng (blooming, dreadfully, rank, thumping, undue, unduly, unreasonable), ho� n to� n (all, all right, all-in-all, altogether, backbone, clean, completely, due, full, fully, heartily, hilt, hollow, inch, out-and-out, outright, perfectly, profound, purely, quite, regular, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughly, undivided, utter, utterly, wholly), ho� n bị (thorough), giỏi (adept, conversant, dab, death, famously, nut, versed, well-up). (various references)

consummata, consummati, consummatis, consummatisque, consummatum, consummatus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "consummate": consummated, consummately, consummates. (additional references)

Words containing "consummate": unconsummated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Consummate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: connsumate, consammate, consomate, consommate, consommateur, conssumate, consumate, consumerate, consumite, consummare, consummatum, consummerate, cosummate, Sonsonate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: comments, communes, commutes, omentums, seamount.

-3 letters: acetous, acumens, amounts, automen, centums, comates, comment, commune, commute, conatus, consume, contuse, costume, coteaus, maumets, momenta, moments, mucosae, nutcase, octanes, omentum, outmans, sanctum, soutane, summate, toucans.

-4 letters: acetum, acumen, acutes, aments, amount, ascent, atones, cameos, canoes, cantos, cantus, centas, centos, centum, comate, comets, commas, comtes, contes, costae.

+1 letter: consummated, consummates.

+2 letters: commensurate, communicates, consummately, consummative.

+3 letters: communalities, communicatees, medicamentous, unconsummated.

+4 letters: commensurately, commensuration, decamethoniums, excommunicates, incommensurate.

+5 letters: commensurations, excommunicators, semidocumentary.