Consummate Meaning

/ˈkɒnsəmət/
C1

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adjComplete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

adjSupremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.

Tom is a consummate professional.
Mary is a consummate professional.
He is a consummate professional in his field.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The chef is a ____ professional who never makes mistakes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Tom is a ____ professional.

First attested in the beginning of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English consummat(e) (“(past participle) fulfilled, completed; (adjective) perfect, consummate”), borrowed from Latin cōnsummātus, perfect passive participle of cōnsummō (“to sum up, finish, complete”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + summa (“a sum”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see sum, summation. Common participial usage up until Early Modern English.

"There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue." — 1527, Robert Thorne, Divers Voyages touching the Dicoverie of America, volume 5:
"A man of perfect and consummate virtue." — 1712 January 22 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, January 12, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 273; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
"A sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him." — 1859, George Meredith, chapter 5, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
"[…] Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that […]" — 1880, George Bernard Shaw, “Chapter VII”, in The Irrational Knot:
"Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon" — 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting:

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The chef is a ____ professional who never makes mistakes.
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Tom is a ____ professional.

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