Exquisite vs Consummate - What's the difference?
exquisite | consummate | Synonyms |
Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
(lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
; far-fetched; abstruse.
Of special beauty or rare excellence.
Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
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Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
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*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
(rare) Fop, dandy.
* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
*:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
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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
Exquisite is a synonym of consummate.
As adjectives the difference between exquisite and consummate
is that exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional while consummate is complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.As a noun exquisite
is (rare) fop, dandy.As a verb consummate is
to bring (a task, project, goal etc) to completion; to accomplish.exquisite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* beautiful, delicate, discriminatingNoun
(en noun)- So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
consummate
English
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.
