summary
/ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/
summary adjective: concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
Adjective
summary (comparative more summary, superlative most summary)
- Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
- Near-synonym: abstractive
- A summary review is in the appendix.
- Synonyms:
- summative, summarizing[participial adjective|part. adj.]]>, abstractive
- Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.
- Near-synonym: extrajudicial
- They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
- Synonyms:
- extrajudicial
- Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.
- The matter was brought to a close by summary dismissal of the cases.
- The summary executions caused outrage.
Noun
summary (plural summaries)
- An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
- I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so I read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.
- make a summary of the events
- Synonyms:
- précis, upshot, bottom line, short form, abridgment, abstract, compendium, conspectus, digest, epitome
Proper noun capitalized: Summary
Summary
- A surname.
summary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
summary in Hindi
- condensed presentation
- सारांश sārāñś, ख़ुलासा xulāsā
summary in Tamil
- தொகை, சுருக்கமுறை, சுருக்கம், சாரம், உடனேறு குருகு முறை, சிறுகுறிப்பு
summary in Marathi
- summary, abstract
- सारांश sārāuśa
summary in Urdu
- condensed presentation
- خُلاصَہ xulāsā, اختصار ixtisār
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- summary in Bengali
- সরাসরি śoraśori
- summary in Telugu
- సారాంశం, సారాంశము, సారాంశంః
- summary in Malayalam
- സാരസംഗ്രഹ sārasaṅgraha, സംഗ്രഹ saṅgraha, സംഗ്രഹം saṅgrahaṁ, സാരസംഗ്രഹം sārasaṅgrahaṁ
- summary in Kannada
- ಸಂಕ್ಷಿಪ್ತ saṅkṣipta
- summary in Punjabi
- ਖ਼ੁਲਾਸਾ xulāsā
- summary in Gujarati
- સારાંશ, સારાંશઃ
- summary in Odia
- ସାରାଂଶ, ସାରାଂଶଃ
- summary in Nepali
- सारांश, सारांशः
- summary in Pashto
- خلاصه xolāsa
- summary in Tagalog
- buod
- summary in Arabic
- خُلَاصَة ḵulāṣa, مُلَخَّص mulaḵḵaṣ
- summary in Malay
- ringkasan
- summary in Persian
- خلاصه xolâse, چکیده čakide
- summary in Thai
- สรุป sà-rùp
- summary in Vietnamese
- tóm tắt
Examples of summary in a sentence
- He gave a short summary without getting into the nitty-gritty of the problem.
- By default, the summary tasks are bold and outdented, and the subtasks are indented beneath them.
- Wimbledon's press office produces a day by day summary of the day's play.
Synonyms of summary
- summative
- summarizing[participial adjective|part. adj.]]>
- abstractive
- extrajudicial
- précis
- upshot
- bottom line
- short form
- abridgment
- abstract
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Forms of summary
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more summary |
| superlative | most summary |
| Noun | |
| plural | summaries |
Origin of summary
From Middle English summary, from Medieval Latin summārius, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives).
From Medieval Latin summārium, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārium (suffix forming nouns of purpose).
Words formed from summary
Phrases with summary
Questions about summary
- What does summary mean?
- Summary means concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
- What is summary in Hindi?
- Summary in Hindi is सारांश (sārāñś), ख़ुलासा (xulāsā). See Summary meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is summary?
- Summary can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce summary?
- Summary is pronounced /ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/.
Words near summary in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: summary (page history and authors); Summary (page history and authors); summary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सारांश (Marathi) (page history and authors); সরাসরি (Bengali) (page history and authors); summary (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ಸಂಕ್ಷಿಪ್ತ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਖ਼ੁਲਾਸਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); summary (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); summary (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); summary (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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