Absolute vs. Consummate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Absolute and Consummate
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Absolute
Unqualified in extent or degree; total
Absolute silence.
Consummate
To bring to completion or fruition; conclude
Consummate a business transaction.
Absolute
Not limited by restrictions or exceptions
An absolute right.
Consummate
To realize or achieve; fulfill
A dream that was finally consummated with the publication of her first book.
Absolute
Being fully such; utter
An absolute fool.
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Consummate
To complete (a marriage) with the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony.
Absolute
Unconstrained by constitutional or other provisions
An absolute ruler.
Consummate
To fulfill (a sexual desire or attraction) especially by intercourse.
Absolute
Not mixed; pure
Absolute oxygen.
Consummate
Complete or perfect in every respect
Consummate happiness.
Absolute
Not to be doubted or questioned; positive
Absolute proof.
Consummate
Supremely accomplished or skilled
"Sargent was now a consummate master of brushwork" (Roberta Smith).
Absolute
Of, relating to, or being a word, phrase, or construction that is isolated syntactically from the rest of a sentence, as the referee having finally arrived in The referee having finally arrived, the game began.
Consummate
Complete; utter
A consummate bore.
Absolute
Of, relating to, or being a transitive verb when its object is implied but not stated. For example, inspires in We have a teacher who inspires is an absolute verb.
Consummate
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
Absolute
Of, relating to, or being an adjective or pronoun that stands alone when the noun it modifies is being implied but not stated. For example, in Theirs were the best, theirs is an absolute pronoun and best is an absolute adjective.
Consummate
Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
A consummate sergeant
Absolute
Relating to measurements or units of measurement derived from fundamental units of length, mass, and time.
Consummate
(transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
Absolute
Relating to absolute temperature.
Consummate
(transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
Absolute
(Law) Complete and unconditional; final
An absolute divorce.
Consummate
(transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
The marriage was never consummated
After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
Absolute
Something that is absolute.
Consummate
(intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.
Absolute
Something regarded as the ultimate and transcendent basis of all thought and being. Used with the.
Consummate
Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.
The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
Absolute
Something regarded as exceeding or transcending everything else to the point of being independent and unrelated.
Consummate
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
To consummate this business happily.
Absolute
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Consummate
Of marriages
Absolute
Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
Consummate
Make perfect; bring to perfection
Absolute
Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
Absolute purity, absolute liberty
Consummate
Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill;
A consummate artist
Consummate skill
A masterful speaker
Masterful technique
A masterly performance of the sonata
A virtuoso performance
Absolute
Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
Absolute alcohol
Consummate
Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities;
A complete gentleman
Consummate happiness
A consummate performance
Absolute
Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
When caught, he told an absolute lie.
An absolute denial of all charges
You're an absolute genius!
Consummate
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
An arrant fool
A complete coward
A consummate fool
A double-dyed villain
Gross negligence
A perfect idiot
Pure folly
What a sodding mess
Stark staring mad
A thoroughgoing villain
Utter nonsense
Absolute
Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
Absolute
(archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
Absolute
Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
The doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible, an absolute principle
Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.
Absolute
(physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
Absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position
Absolute
Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
Absolute
Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
Absolute
(grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
Absolute
(of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
Absolute
(of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
Absolute
Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
Absolute
Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
Absolute
(of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
Absolute
(of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
Absolute
(math) As measured using an absolute value.
Absolute deviation
Absolute square
Mean absolute difference
Absolute
(math) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
Absolute
(education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
Absolute
Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
Absolute music
Absolute
Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or certain kinds of occurrence.
A freehold property is an estate in fee simple absolute in possession.
Absolute
(obsolete) Absolved; free.
Absolute
That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
Moral absolutes
Absolute
(geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
Absolute
A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
Absolute
The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
Absolute
(chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
Absolute
Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
Absolute
Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
So absolute she seems,And in herself complete.
Absolute
Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; - opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
Absolute
Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
Absolute
Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
To Cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute.
Absolute
Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
I am absolute 't was very Cloten.
Absolute
Authoritative; peremptory.
The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head,With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.
Absolute
Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
Absolute
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
Absolute
In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
Absolute
Something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control;
No mortal being can influence the absolute
Absolute
Perfect or complete or pure;
Absolute loyalty
Absolute silence
Absolute truth
Absolute alcohol
Absolute
Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
Absolute freedom
An absolute dimwit
A downright lie
Out-and-out mayhem
An out-and-out lie
A rank outsider
Many right-down vices
Got the job through sheer persistence
Sheer stupidity
Absolute
Not limited by law;
An absolute monarch
Absolute
Expressing finality with no implication of possible change;
An absolute (or unequivocal) quarantee to respect the nation's authority
Inability to make a conclusive (or unequivocal) refusal
Absolute
Without conditions or limitations;
A total ban
Absolute
Not capable of being violated or infringed;
Infrangible human rights
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