Consummate vs Excellent - What's the difference?

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Consummate is a related term of excellent.

As adjectives the difference between consummate and excellent

is that consummate is complete in every detail, perfect, absolute while excellent is of the highest quality; splendid.

As a verb consummate

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

As an adverb excellent is

(obsolete) excellently.

consummate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

* Addison

A man of perfect and consummate virtue.

* 1900 , ",

Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon

* 1880 , ,

highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified

* a consummate sergeant

* ,

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.

Synonyms

* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utter

Derived terms

* consummately

Verb

(consummat)

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

To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch

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

After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.

* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,

To become perfected, receive the finishing touch

Synonyms

* (bring to completion) complete, finish, round off

Derived terms

* consummation * consummative * consummator * consummatory

External links

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excellent
English
(wikipedia excellent)
Adjective
(en-adj)
Of the highest quality; splendid.

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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

Exceptionally good of its kind.

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Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

*(David Hume) (1711-1776)

*:an excellent hypocrite

*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

*:Their sorrows are most excellent .

Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* excellence * excellently * excellentness
Adverb
(en adverb)
(obsolete) Excellently.

*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:

Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

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