Difference between Consummate and Complete

What is the difference between Consummate and Complete?

Consummate as an adjective is complete in every detail, perfect, absolute. while Complete as an adjective is with everything included.

Consummate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute. highly skilled and experienced, fully qualified

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish. To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse. To become perfected, receive the finishing touch

Example sentence: It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.

Complete

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: With everything included.Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.in which every Cauchy sequence convergesin which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To finish; to make done; to reach the end.To make whole or entire.

Example sentence: There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

We hope you now know whether to use Consummate or Complete in your sentence.

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