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CONSUMMATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does consummate mean?
• CONSUMMATE (adjective)
The adjective CONSUMMATE has 3 senses:
1. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
2. perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
3. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Familiarity information: CONSUMMATE used as an adjective is uncommon.
• CONSUMMATE (verb)
The verb CONSUMMATE has 2 senses:
1. fulfill sexually
2. make perfect; bring to perfection
Familiarity information: CONSUMMATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
Synonyms:
consummate; masterful; masterly; virtuoso
Context example:
a virtuoso performance
Similar:
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
Synonyms:
complete; consummate
Context example:
a consummate performance
Similar:
perfect (being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Synonyms:
arrant; complete; consummate; double-dyed; everlasting; gross; perfect; pure; sodding; staring; stark; thorough; thoroughgoing; unadulterated; utter
Context example:
the unadulterated truth
Similar:
unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it consummates Past simple: consummated
Past participle: consummated
-ing form: consummating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fulfill sexually
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
consummate a marriage
Hypernyms (to "consummate" is one way to...):
accomplish; action; carry out; carry through; execute; fulfil; fulfill (put in effect)
"Consummate" entails doing...:
bang; be intimate; bed; bonk; do it; eff; fuck; get it on; get laid; have a go at it; have intercourse; have it away; have it off; have sex; hump; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep together; sleep with (have sexual intercourse with)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)
consummation (the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make perfect; bring to perfection
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "consummate" is one way to...):
accomplish; action; carry out; carry through; execute; fulfil; fulfill (put in effect)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)
Context examples
In his murder my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my being is wound to its close!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Yet with consummate horsemanship they both swung round in a long curvet, and then plucking out their swords they lashed at each other like two lusty smiths hammering upon an anvil.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Her picture, I suppose,” blushing at the consummate art of her own question, “hangs in your father's room?”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“Then here’s a compact,” he went on, consummate actor.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Why on earth, then, should any criminal send her the proofs of his guilt, especially as, unless she is a most consummate actress, she understands quite as little of the matter as we do?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No communication—a—until—Miss Wickfield—a—redress from wrongs inflicted by consummate scoundrel—HEEP! (I am quite convinced he could not have uttered three words, but for the amazing energy with which this word inspired him when he felt it coming.) Inviolable secret—a—from the whole world—a—no exceptions—this day week—a—at breakfast-time—a—everybody present—including aunt—a—and extremely friendly gentleman—to be at the hotel at Canterbury—a—where—Mrs. Micawber and myself—Auld Lang Syne in chorus—and—a—will expose intolerable ruffian—HEEP!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was struck with a profound veneration at the sight of Brutus, and could easily discover the most consummate virtue, the greatest intrepidity and firmness of mind, the truest love of his country, and general benevolence for mankind, in every lineament of his countenance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In appearing before you to denounce probably the most consummate Villain that has ever existed, Mr. Micawber, without looking off the letter, pointed the ruler, like a ghostly truncheon, at Uriah Heep, I ask no consideration for myself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Neither yours nor any man’s death is needed to consummate the series of my being and accomplish that which must be done, but it requires my own.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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