sum up

Questions about sum up

What does sum up mean?

sum up means "give a summary (of)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sum up?

Close synonyms include summarize, summarise, resume, summarize, summarise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sum up a common word?

sum up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.