Consummate \Con*sum"mate\ (k[o^]n*s[u^]m"m[asl]t), a. [L.
consummatus, p. p. or consummare to accomplish, sum up; con-
+ summa sum. See Sum.]
Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest
quality; complete; perfect. "A man of perfect and consummate
virtue." --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
--Motley
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Consummate \Con"sum*mate\ (k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]t or
k[o^]n*s[u^]m"m[=a]t; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Consummated
(k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Consummating
(k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]`t[i^]ng).]
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or
degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
[1913 Webster]
To consummate this business happily. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
consummate
adj 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" [syn: masterful, masterly,
virtuoso(a)]
2: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary
qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness";
"a consummate performance" [syn: complete]
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" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a),
consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a),
perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a),
thoroughgoing(a), utter(a)]
v 1: of marriages
2: make perfect; bring to perfection
WordNet (r) 2.0
185 Moby Thesaurus words for "consummate":
able, absolute, accomplish, accomplished, achieve, acmatic,
all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apical,
archetypical, arrant, attain, born, broad-based, cap, capital,
chief, classic, classical, clean, clear, climax, compass, complete,
comprehensive, conclude, congenital, crass, crest, crown,
culminate, deal with, decided, deep-dyed, definitive, developed,
discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick,
downright, dyed-in-the-wool, effect, effectuate, egregious, enact,
end, execute, exemplary, exhaustive, expert, faultless, fetch,
finish, finished, flagrant, flawless, frost, fulfill,
fully developed, fully realized, gifted, glaring, gross, halt,
head, headmost, highest, ice, impeccable, inimitable, intensive,
intolerable, knock off, make, manage, masterful, masterly, mature,
matured, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, model, omnibus,
omnipresent, out-and-out, outright, outtop, overarch, overmost,
overtop, paramount, peak, peerless, perfect, perfected, perform,
pervasive, plain, plumb, polish off, polished, positive, practiced,
precious, preeminent, produce, proficient, profound, pronounced,
proper, pure, put away, quintessential, radical, rank, realize,
refined, regular, ripe, ripened, shattering, sheer, shocking,
skilled, stark, stark-staring, straight, succeed, summital, superb,
superlative, supreme, surmount, surpassing, sweeping, take care of,
talented, terminate, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing,
through-and-through, tip, tip-top, top, top off, topmost, total,
trained, transcendent, turn the trick, ubiquitous, ultimate,
unbearable, unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal,
universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved,
unrestricted, unspoiled, unsurpassable, upmost, uppermost, utter,
veritable, vertical, virtuosic, wholesale, wind up, work, work out,
wrap up, zenithal
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
CONSUMMATE. What is completed. A right is said to be initiate, when it is not
complete; and when it is perfected, it is consummated.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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