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consummate

If a restaurant is a consummate example of fine dining, you might say there's nothing more to say about fine dining that what this restaurant represents. Consummate means complete or finished.

Consummate can be used to describe something good or bad: consummate joy, a consummate liar. To consummate means to bring something to completion, but it often refers specifically to making a marriage complete by having sexual relations. The adjective is pronounced KÄN-sə-mit, but the verb is pronounced KÄN-sə-māt.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: consummate

1
 adjv
having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
make perfect; bring to perfection
2
 v
fulfill sexually
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: consummate
1

adj having or revealing supreme mastery or skill

“a consummate artist”
“consummate skill”
Synonyms:
masterful, masterly, virtuoso
skilled
having or showing or requiring special skill

adj perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities

“consummate happiness”
“a consummate performance”
Synonyms:
complete
perfect
being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish

adj without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

“a consummate fool”
Synonyms:
arrant, complete, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter
unmitigated
not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier

v make perfect; bring to perfection

Type of:
accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill
put in effect
2

v fulfill sexually

“consummate a marriage”
Type of:
accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill
put in effect
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