Consummate vs. Perfect: What's the Difference?

To bring to completion or fruition; conclude

Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.

To realize or achieve; fulfill

Being without defect or blemish

To complete (a marriage) with the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony.

Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient.

To fulfill (a sexual desire or attraction) especially by intercourse.

Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation

Complete or perfect in every respect

Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type

Supremely accomplished or skilled

Accurately reproducing an original

Complete; utter

Complete; thorough; utter

Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

Pure; undiluted; unmixed

Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.

Excellent and delightful in all respects

(transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

(Botany) Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous.

(transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.

Capable of sexual reproduction. Used of fungi.

(transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.

(Grammar) Of, relating to, or constituting a verb form expressing action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.

(intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

(Music) Designating the three basic intervals of the octave, fourth, and fifth.

Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

(Grammar) The aspect of a verb that expresses action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.

To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

A verb or verb form having this aspect.

Of marriages

To bring to perfection or completion

Make perfect; bring to perfection

Fitting its definition precisely.

Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill;

Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.

Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities;

Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

Excellent and delightful in all respects.

(mathematics) Of a number: equal to the sum of its proper divisors.

Representing a completed action.

(biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.

(botany) Of flowers, having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).

(analysis) Of a set: equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A.

(music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.

(of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.

(obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.

(obsolete) Innocent, guiltless.

(grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

(video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.

A leader of the Cathar movement.

(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.

(legal) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

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.

Well informed; certain; sure.

Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; - said of flower.

The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

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.

A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

Make perfect or complete;

Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

Precisely accurate or exact;