summary
//ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi//
formalForms
- Comparative
- more summary
- Superlative
- most summary
- Plural
- summaries
Definitions
1.Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
- A summary review is in the appendix.
2.Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.
- They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
3.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.
1.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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3533
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English summary
From Medieval Latin summārius
From Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives).