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summarily

/səˈmɛɹɪli/

summarily adverb: in a summary manner.

Adverb

summarily (comparative more summarily, superlative most summarily)

  1. In a summary manner.
    • They were fired summarily at a single plant-wide meeting.
    • […] and any offender found with firearms in his possession contrary to this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof summarily convicted before any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace, of being so illegally at large as aforesaid, shall be kept to hard...1849, Charles Fitzgerald, Ordinance enabling transportation of convicts to Western Australia
    Synonyms:
    unceremoniously
  2. Over a short period of time, briefly.
    • He covered the topic summarily in an answer to a question.
    • After this mention of the closing persecution, he summarily indicates all that the devil, and the city of which he is the prince, shall suffer in the last judgment.1950, Marcus, transl. Dods, chapter 14, in The City of God, book XX, translation of original by Augustine of Hippo
    Synonyms:
    ephemerally

summarily meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

summarily in Bengali

সংক্ষেপে, অবিলম্বে

summarily in Malayalam

right away, immediately, instantly
സംക്ഷിപ്തമായി, ഝടിതിയായി, ക്ഷിപ്രം, ഉടനേ, ഉടൻ, ക്ഷണം

Examples of summarily in a sentence

  • […] but in July 1745 he was summarily ordered by the secretary of state, the Duke of Newcastle, to return to England.c. 1885-1900, John Knox Laughton, “Rowley, William (1690?-1768)”, in Dictionary of National Biography:
  • It is true that contempt committed in a trial courtroom can under some circumstances be punished summarily by the trial judge.1955, Hugo Black, In re Murchison: Opinion of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States:
  • Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
  • They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:

All 17 example sentences with summarily

Synonyms of summarily

Forms of summarily

comparativemore summarily
superlativemost summarily

Origin of summarily

From summary + -ly.

Questions about summarily

What does summarily mean?
Summarily means in a summary manner.
What is summarily in Bengali?
Summarily in Bengali is সংক্ষেপে, অবিলম্বে. See Summarily meaning in Bengali.
How do you use summarily in a sentence?
[…] but in July 1745 he was summarily ordered by the secretary of state, the Duke of Newcastle, to return to England.
What part of speech is summarily?
Summarily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce summarily?
Summarily is pronounced /səˈmɛɹɪli/.

Words near summarily in the dictionary

  1. summable
  2. summae
  3. summand
  4. summands
  5. summaries
  6. summarily
  7. summariness
  8. summarisable
  9. summarisation
  10. summarisations
  11. summarise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: summarily (page history and authors); summarily (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); summarily (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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