consummate
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
consummate
adj 1: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a
consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful
speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance
of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance" [syn:
{consummate}, {masterful}, {masterly}, {virtuoso(a)}]
2: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary
qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a
consummate performance" [syn: {complete}, {consummate}]
3: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: {arrant(a)},
{complete(a)}, {consummate(a)}, {double-dyed(a)},
{everlasting(a)}, {gross(a)}, {perfect(a)}, {pure(a)},
{sodding(a)}, {stark(a)}, {staring(a)}, {thoroughgoing(a)},
{utter(a)}, {unadulterated}]
v 1: fulfill sexually; "consummate a marriage"
2: make perfect; bring to perfection
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Consummate \Con*sum"mate\ (k[o^]n*s[u^]m"m[asl]t), a. [L.
consummatus, p. p. or consummare to accomplish, sum up; con-
+ summa sum. See {Sum}.]
Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest
quality; complete; perfect. "A man of perfect and consummate
virtue." --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
--Motley
[1913 Webster]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Consummate \Con"sum*mate\ (k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]t or
k[o^]n*s[u^]m"m[=a]t; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consummated}
(k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Consummating}
(k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]`t[i^]ng).]
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or
degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
[1913 Webster]
To consummate this business happily. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
185 Moby Thesaurus words for "consummate":
able, absolute, accomplish, accomplished, achieve, acmatic,
all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apical,
archetypical, arrant, attain, born, broad-based, cap, capital,
chief, classic, classical, clean, clear, climax, compass, complete,
comprehensive, conclude, congenital, crass, crest, crown,
culminate, deal with, decided, deep-dyed, definitive, developed,
discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick,
downright, dyed-in-the-wool, effect, effectuate, egregious, enact,
end, execute, exemplary, exhaustive, expert, faultless, fetch,
finish, finished, flagrant, flawless, frost, fulfill,
fully developed, fully realized, gifted, glaring, gross, halt,
head, headmost, highest, ice, impeccable, inimitable, intensive,
intolerable, knock off, make, manage, masterful, masterly, mature,
matured, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, model, omnibus,
omnipresent, out-and-out, outright, outtop, overarch, overmost,
overtop, paramount, peak, peerless, perfect, perfected, perform,
pervasive, plain, plumb, polish off, polished, positive, practiced,
precious, preeminent, produce, proficient, profound, pronounced,
proper, pure, put away, quintessential, radical, rank, realize,
refined, regular, ripe, ripened, shattering, sheer, shocking,
skilled, stark, stark-staring, straight, succeed, summital, superb,
superlative, supreme, surmount, surpassing, sweeping, take care of,
talented, terminate, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing,
through-and-through, tip, tip-top, top, top off, topmost, total,
trained, transcendent, turn the trick, ubiquitous, ultimate,
unbearable, unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal,
universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved,
unrestricted, unspoiled, unsurpassable, upmost, uppermost, utter,
veritable, vertical, virtuosic, wholesale, wind up, work, work out,
wrap up, zenithal
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