different between polished vs consummate

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: p?l??sht, IPA^(key): /?p?l??t/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?l??sht, IPA^(key): /?p?l??t/
• Hyphenation: pol?ished

Adjective

polished (comparative more polished, superlative most polished)

1. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

2. Refined, elegant.

   • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

polished

1. simple past tense and past participle of polish

Anagrams

• depolish, lodeship

English

Etymology

From Latin c?nsumm?tus, past participle of c?nsumm?re (“to sum up, finish, complete”), from com- (“together”) + summa (“the sum”) (see sum, summation).

Pronunciation

Adjective

• (UK) enPR: k?n's?m?t, k?n'syo?om?t, k?ns?m'?t, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?m?t/, /?k?nsj?m?t/, /k?n?s?m?t/
• (US) enPR: k?n's?m?t, k?ns?m'?t, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?m?t/, /k?n?s?m?t/

Verb

• (UK) enPR: k?n's?m?t, k?n'syo?om?t, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?me?t/, /?k?nsj?me?t/
• (US) enPR: k?n's?m?t, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?me?t/

Adjective

consummate (comparative more consummate, superlative most consummate)

1. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

   Synonyms: absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 5:

     A sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him.

   • 1880, Georges Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot, Chapter VII,

     […] Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that […]

   • 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, "The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting",

     Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon

2. Highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled

   • 1910, Lionel Giles (translator), The Art of War, Section IV (originally by Sun Tzu)

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

Derived terms

• consummately

Translations

Verb

consummate (third-person singular simple present consummates, present participle consummating, simple past and past participle consummated)

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

   Synonyms: complete, finish, round off; see also Thesaurus:end
2. (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.

   Synonyms: complete, perfect, top off

3. (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
4. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

   Synonyms: come to a head, mature, ripe

Derived terms

• consummation
• consummative
• consummator
• consummatory

Related terms

• consume

Translations

Further reading

• consummate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• consummate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

c?nsumm?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?nsumm?