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As an adjective, summary means concise, brief or presented in a condensed form. As a noun, it means an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

Meanings of summary

6 meanings

adjective

  1. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form

    “A summary review is in the appendix.”

  2. Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.

    “They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.”

  3. legalPerformed by skipping the procedures of a standard and fair trial.

    “Summary justice is bad justice.”

  4. Briefly giving the gist of something

    “a short and compendious book”

    “a compact style is brief and pithy”

    “succinct comparisons”

    Similar: compendious, compact, succinct

noun

  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 read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.”

    “make a summary of the events”

  2. A brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form

    “he gave a summary of the conclusions”

    Similar: sum-up

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: performed speedily and without formality
adjective: briefly giving the gist of something
compendiouscompactsuccinct
noun: a brief statement that presents the main points in a conc…

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