consummate

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnsəmət/

The English word “consummate” has 8 meanings listed here.

adjective

Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.
Consummated.

verb

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 the spouses' first engaging in sexual intercourse.
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

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…

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