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consummate.

Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈkɒnsəmət/UK/ˈkɒnsjʊmət/UK/kənˈsʌmɪt/UK/ˈkɑnsəmət/US
  1. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

  2. Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.

    a consummate sergeant
  3. Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.

    obsolete
  4. Consummated.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

First attested in the beginning of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English consummat(e) (“(past participle) fulfilled, completed; (adjective) perfect, consummate”), borrowed from Latin cōnsummātus, perfect passive participle of cōnsummō (“to sum up, finish, complete”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + summa (“a sum”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see sum, summation. Common participial usage up until Early Modern English.

verb/ˈkɒnsəmeɪt/UK/ˈkɒnsjʊmeɪt/UK/ˈkɑnsəmeɪt/US
  1. To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

    transitive
  2. To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.

    transitive
  3. To make (a marriage) complete by the spouses' first engaging in sexual intercourse.

    transitive
    the marriage was never consummated
    After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
  4. To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

First attested in c. 1525; either inherited from Middle English *consummaten (only attested in compound tenses) or directly borrowed from Latin consummātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

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