consummate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏn'səmət
enpr: kŏn'syo͝omət
enpr: kənsŭm'ĭt
ipa: /ˈkɒnsəmət/
ipa: /ˈkɒnsjʊmət/
ipa: /kənˈsʌmɪt/
enpr: kŏn'səmət
enpr: kənsŭm'ĭt
ipa: /ˈkɑnsəmət/
ipa: /kənˈsʌmɪt/
Forms: form: more consummate
form: most consummate
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.
ref: 1527, Robert Thorne, Divers Voyages touching the Dicoverie of America, volume 5:
text: A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
ref: 1712 January 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, January 12, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 273; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: A sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 5, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: […] Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that […]
ref: 1880, George Bernard Shaw, “Chapter VII”, in The Irrational Knot:
text: Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
ref: 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting:
text: England's first-half display was consummate in its control, Italy made to look decidedly average as Rice and Jude Bellingham controlled affairs and Kane made history.
ref: 2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: absolute
word: complete
word: perfect
word: sheer
word: total
word: utter
word: abject
word: frightful
word: absolute
word: arrant
word: categoric
word: categorical
word: complete
word: consummate
word: downright
word: full
word: full-blown
word: full-bore
word: full-on
word: mere
word: outright
word: out-and-out
word: perfect
word: proper
word: pure
word: rank
word: regular
word: right
word: root and branch
word: sheer
word: straight-out
word: thorough
word: thoroughgoing
word: total
word: unadulterated
word: unalloyed
word: unattenuated
word: uncompromising
word: unconditional
word: unfettered
word: unmitigated
word: unqualified
word: unreserved
word: unrestricted
word: utter
word: wholesale
glosses: Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
examples: text: a consummate sergeant
text: Thus[…] he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details perfect in unity, and, contributing to a final purpose, are the sign of the production of a consummate master.
ref: 1843, [John Ruskin], “Preface to the second edition”, in Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page xxxii:
text: Many of these works are of permanent value from their nobility and beauty of style and their intrinsic emotional significance, and all are characterized by high intellectual qualities, and consummate musicianship.
ref: 1900, John Comfort Filmore, Pianoforte Music: Its history, with Biographical Sketches and Critical Estimates of its Greatest Masters, Presser, page 17:
text: The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, […] ; thus it is in his power to control success.
ref: 1910, Lionel Giles (translator), The Art of War, Section IV (originally by Sun Tzu)
text: At Ballet Theater, [James] Whiteside is in demand. His classical variations are high-octane sprints; he lifts ballerinas like they’re feathers. His consummate athleticism allows him to be the versatile artist he is: modern or dashing, playful or tragic.
ref: 2021 March 10, Gia Kourlas, “Ballet Is Hard Enough. What Happens When You Lose a Year?”, in The New York Times:
text: I didn’t understand why at the time, but Jasmine is such a consummate performer and had already developed her idea of the role.
ref: 2022 December 28, Jori Finkel, “Making Intergalactic and Intergenerational Art”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: able
word: artful
word: habile
word: accomplished
word: adept
word: adroit
word: apt
word: capable
word: competent
word: consummate
word: conversant
word: crack
word: crafty
word: deft
word: dexterous
word: expert
word: facile
word: fluent
word: gain
word: handy
word: maestrolike
word: masterful
word: masterlike
word: masterly
word: masterous
word: professional
word: proficient
word: qualified
word: quick
word: ready
word: skilled
word: skillful
word: thoroughbred
word: tight
word: practiced
word: versed
glosses: Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
examples: text: Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.
ref: 1615, George Chapman, Odyssey:
glosses: Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.
raw_tags: as a participle
examples: text: I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 110, column 2:
glosses: Consummated.
raw_tags: of a marriage
as a participle
Derived terms: consummately
unconsummate