Inimitable vs Consummate - What's the difference?
inimitable | consummate | Related terms |
Beyond imitation, surpassing all others, matchless.
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
* Addison
* 1900 , ",
* 1880 , ,
highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
* a consummate sergeant
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To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
Inimitable is a related term of consummate.
As adjectives the difference between inimitable and consummate
is that inimitable is beyond imitation, surpassing all others, matchless while consummate is complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.As a verb consummate is
to bring (a task, project, goal etc) to completion; to accomplish.inimitable
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Usage notes
Not to be confused with .Derived terms
* inimitability * inimitablyAntonyms
* imitable * commonplaceSee also
* illimitable ----consummate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.
Synonyms
* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utterDerived terms
* consummatelyVerb
(consummat)- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.