Commensurate vs. Consummate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Commensurate and Consummate
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Commensurate
Corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
Salary will be commensurate with age and experience
Such heavy responsibility must receive commensurate reward
Consummate
To bring to completion or fruition; conclude
Consummate a business transaction.
Commensurate
Of the same size, extent, or duration as another.
Consummate
To realize or achieve; fulfill
A dream that was finally consummated with the publication of her first book.
Commensurate
Corresponding in size or degree; proportionate
A salary commensurate with my performance.
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Consummate
To complete (a marriage) with the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony.
Commensurate
Measurable by a common standard; commensurable.
Consummate
To fulfill (a sexual desire or attraction) especially by intercourse.
Commensurate
Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
Commensurate punishments
Consummate
Complete or perfect in every respect
Consummate happiness.
Commensurate
(physics) Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
Consummate
Supremely accomplished or skilled
"Sargent was now a consummate master of brushwork" (Roberta Smith).
Commensurate
To reduce to a common measure.
Consummate
Complete; utter
A consummate bore.
Commensurate
To proportionate; to adjust.
Consummate
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
Commensurate
To reduce to a common measure.
Consummate
Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
A consummate sergeant
Commensurate
To proportionate; to adjust.
Consummate
(transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
Commensurate
Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
Consummate
(transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
Commensurate
Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, can not choose but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration.
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.
Commensurate
Corresponding in size or degree or extent;
Pay should be commensurate with the time worked
Consummate
(intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.
Consummate
Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.
The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
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.
Consummate
Of marriages
Consummate
Make perfect; bring to perfection
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
Consummate
Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities;
A complete gentleman
Consummate happiness
A consummate performance
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
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