Consummate vs. Perfect

Consummate and Perfect Definitions
Consummate
To bring to completion or fruition; conclude
Consummate a business transaction.
Perfect
Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.
Consummate
To realize or achieve; fulfill
A dream that was finally consummated with the publication of her first book.
Perfect
Being without defect or blemish
A perfect specimen.
Consummate
To complete (a marriage) with the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony.
Perfect
Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient.
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Consummate
To fulfill (a sexual desire or attraction) especially by intercourse.
Perfect
Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation
She was the perfect actress for the part.
Consummate
Complete or perfect in every respect
Consummate happiness.
Perfect
Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type
A perfect circle.
A perfect gentleman.
Consummate
Supremely accomplished or skilled
"Sargent was now a consummate master of brushwork" (Roberta Smith).
Perfect
Accurately reproducing an original
A perfect copy of the painting.
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Consummate
Complete; utter
A consummate bore.
Perfect
Complete; thorough; utter
A perfect fool.
Consummate
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
Perfect
Pure; undiluted; unmixed
Perfect red.
Consummate
Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
A consummate sergeant
Perfect
Excellent and delightful in all respects
A perfect day.
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Consummate
(transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
Perfect
(Botany) Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous.
Consummate
(transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
Perfect
Capable of sexual reproduction. Used of fungi.
Consummate
(transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
The marriage was never consummated
After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
Perfect
(Grammar) Of, relating to, or constituting a verb form expressing action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.
Consummate
(intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.
Perfect
(Music) Designating the three basic intervals of the octave, fourth, and fifth.
Consummate
Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.
The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
Perfect
(Grammar) The aspect of a verb that expresses action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.
Consummate
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
To consummate this business happily.
Perfect
A verb or verb form having this aspect.
Consummate
Of marriages
Perfect
To bring to perfection or completion
Perfected the technique to isolate the virus.
Consummate
Make perfect; bring to perfection
Perfect
Fitting its definition precisely.
A perfect circle
Consummate
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
Perfect
Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
That bucket with the hole in the bottom is a poor bucket, but it is perfect for watering plants.
Consummate
Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities;
A complete gentleman
Consummate happiness
A consummate performance
Perfect
Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.
Practice makes perfect.
Consummate
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
Perfect
Excellent and delightful in all respects.
A perfect day
Perfect
(mathematics) Of a number: equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
6 is perfect because the sum of its proper divisors, 1, 2, and 3, which is 6, is equal to the number itself.
Perfect
Representing a completed action.
Perfect
(biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
Perfect
(botany) Of flowers, having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
Perfect
(analysis) Of a set: equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A .
Perfect
(music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
Perfect
(of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
A perfect Manhattan; a perfect Rob Roy
Perfect
(obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.
Perfect
(obsolete) Innocent, guiltless.
Perfect
(grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
Perfect
(video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
Perfect
A leader of the Cathar movement.
Perfect
(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.
I am going to perfect this article.
You spend too much time trying to perfect your dancing.
Perfect
(legal) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.
Perfect an appeal; perfect an interest; perfect a judgment
Perfect
Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
My strength is made perfect in weakness.
Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun.
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
O most entire perfect sacrifice!
God made thee perfect, not immutable.
Perfect
Well informed; certain; sure.
I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms.
Perfect
Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; - said of flower.
Perfect
The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
Perfect
To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.
Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species.
Perfect
A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Perfect
Make perfect or complete;
Perfect your French in Paris!
Perfect
Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;
A perfect circle
A perfect reproduction
Perfect happiness
Perfect manners
A perfect specimen
A perfect day
Perfect
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
Perfect
Precisely accurate or exact;
Perfect timing