consummate
/ˈkɑnsəmət/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
verb
To make (a marriage) complete by the spouses' first engaging in sexual intercourse.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue."
- "A man of perfect and consummate virtue."
- "A sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him."
- "[…] Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that […]"
- "Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon"
- "England's first-half display was consummate in its control, Italy made to look decidedly average as Rice and Jude Bellingham controlled affairs and Kane made history."
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.
Origin
- Source language: Middle English
- First known use: First attested in c. 1525
Word Breakdown
- Root: consummat(e), cōnsummātus, consummaten
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑnsəmət/
- British English: /ˈkɒnsəmət/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more consummate (comparative)
most consummate (superlative)
consummates (present, singular)
consummating (participle, present)
consummated (participle, past)
consummated (past)