Consummate
Pronunciation
Adjective- UK enPR: kÅn'syoÍomÉ™t, IPA: /ˈkÉ’nsjÊŠmÉ™t/, /kÉ™nˈsÊŒmɪt/
- US enPR: kÉ™n'sÅmÄt, IPA: /ˈkÉ‘nsÉ™mÉ™t/, /kÉ™nˈsÊŒmɪt/
- UK enPR: kÅn'syoÍomÄt, IPA: /ˈkÉ’nsjÊŠmeɪt/
- US enPR: kÅn'sÉ™mÄt, IPA: /ˈkÉ‘nsÉ™meɪt/
Origin
From Latin consummatus, past participle of consummare ("to sum up, finish, complete"), from com- ("together") + summa ("the sum") (see sum, summation).
Full definition of consummate
Adjective
consummate
- Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
- AddisonA man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, "",Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- 1880, Georges Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot, ,... Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that ...
- highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
Derived terms
Verb
- (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
- Although it was agreed by all that discovery must be consummated by possession and use, ...
- In one word, in perfumery the artist completes and consummates the original natural odour, ...
- (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
- (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
- 1890, Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, The Decameron, Novel 2, ,... in the essay which he made the very first night to serve her so as to consummate the marriage he made a false move, ...
- (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch