consummate
Verb
- fulfill sexually
- "consummate a marriage"
- make perfect; bring to perfection
- To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
- To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
- To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
- To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.
Adjective Satellite
- having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
- "a consummate artist"
- "consummate skill"
- perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
- "consummate happiness"
- "a consummate performance"
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- "a consummate fool"
Adj
- Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
- Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
- Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.
- Consummated.
Examples
- a consummate sergeant
- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
- the marriage was never consummated
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
arrant, complete, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, masterful, masterly, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter, virtuoso, abject, able, absolute, accomplished, adept, adroit, apt, artful, capable, categoric, categorical, come to a head, competent, conclude, consummate, conversant, crack, crafty, deft, dexterous, discontinue, do, downright, end, expert, facile, finalize, finish, fluent, full, full-blown, full-bore, full-on, fullcome, gain, get through, handy, maestrolike, masterlike, masterous, mature, mere, out-and-out, outright, practiced, professional, proficient, proper, qualified, quick, ready, regular, right, ripe, root and branch, round off, sheer, skilled, skillful, stay, stop, straight-out, terminate, thorough, thoroughbred, tight, top off, total, unalloyed, unattenuated, uncompromising, unconditional, unfettered, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, versed, wholesale, wind up
Scrabble Score: 16
consummate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordconsummate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
consummate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary