Finished vs Consummate - What's the difference?
finished | consummate |
(label) Processed or perfected.
Completed; concluded; done.
Done for; doomed; used up.
(finish)
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
As adjectives the difference between finished and consummate
is that finished is processed or perfected while consummate is complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.As verbs the difference between finished and consummate
is that finished is past tense of finish while consummate is to bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.finished
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* in the booksAntonyms
* unfinishedDerived terms
* finished productVerb
(head)- He finished the cabinet with two more layers of polyurethane.
Anagrams
* fiendishconsummate
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.