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# consummate

adjective (consummate); verb (consummate, consummates, consummated, consummating – formal)

«consummate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (adjective, formal) Showing very great skill; perfect at something: «a consummate musician». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/#m1)
2. (adjective) Complete, total – used with a bad quality too: «a consummate liar». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/#m2)
3. (verb, formal) To complete or make perfect: «to consummate a deal». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/#m3)

### In the lessons

A grand word used in stories and reviews to praise great skill. In The Wind in the Willows Toad boasts of his own consummate cleverness when he escapes and tricks people. In exam writing it is a strong, formal word for «expert». The verb has a formal legal sense about marriage that is for adults; a pupil only needs «complete a deal».

### Examples

- She is a consummate artist who can draw anything. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/#x1)
- The goalkeeper made the save with consummate ease. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/#x2)
- Toad thought himself a consummate actor in his washerwoman disguise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/#x3)
- He was a consummate liar who fooled everybody. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/#x4)
- The two companies consummated the deal last week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/#x5)
- The magician performed the trick with consummate skill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/#x6)

### Note

Two pronunciations: the adjective is «kun-SUM-it» or «KON-suh-mit»; the verb is «KON-suh-mate». Formal; in everyday talk say «brilliant», «expert» or «total».

## In Jewish tradition

A grand word used in stories and reviews to praise great skill. In The Wind in the Willows Toad boasts of his own consummate cleverness when he escapes and tricks people. In exam writing it is a strong, formal word for «expert». The verb has a formal legal sense about marriage that is for adults; a pupil only needs «complete a deal».

### Examples

- The Twenty-eighth Path is the Natural Intelligence, and is so called because through it is consummated and perfected the nature of every existent being under the orb of the Sun, in perfection. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/consummate/#x1)

### Note

Two pronunciations: the adjective is «kun-SUM-it» or «KON-suh-mit»; the verb is «KON-suh-mate». Formal; in everyday talk say «brilliant», «expert» or «total».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «consummate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consummate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«consummate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/consummate.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «consummate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/consummate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«consummate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/consummate.html) on Mova free.