Difference between Consummate and Perfect

What is the difference between Consummate and Perfect?

Consummate as an adjective is complete in every detail, perfect, absolute. while Perfect as an adjective is fitting its definition precisely.

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: Bharatnatyam is defined in many ways and everyone has an opinion. But I see it as a consummate art - a kind of fifth Veda.

Perfect

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Fitting its definition precisely.Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.Thoroughly skilled or talented.Excellent and delightful in all respects.(of a tense or verb form) Representing a completed action.Sexually mature and fully differentiated.Having both male (stamens) and female (carpels) parts.Of a set, that it is equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make perfect; to improve or hone.To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

Example sentence: So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

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

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