finishing touch

NOUN

clincher

Synonyms

STRONG

closer culmination deathblow finisher

WEAK

capper coup de grâce crowning blow deciding moment

NOUN

complement

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accompaniment

STRONG

addition aggregate augmentation balance capacity completion consummation correlate correlative counterpart enhancement enrichment entirety filler makeweight pendant quota remainder rest supplement total totality

WEAK

rounding-off

Antonyms

STRONG

base core decrease fraction part

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If you have an extra minute or two, you can add a small finishing touch — something that signals, to you, that you’re done.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

De Jong delivered the finishing touch to give Barca a two-goal lead at the break.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

The finishing touch is the "star" - an outline of a crab with white lights.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

Mookie Betts stepped on second and fired the ball to first to put the finishing touch on what might have been the greatest Game 7 ever played, four hours and seven minutes after it began.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

Or were the lesions merely a finishing touch on being pretty?

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

finishing touch

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