summary

1. 1.

   a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form

   “he gave a summary of the conclusions”

   Synonymssum-up

   Broaderstatement

   Narrowerargumentcapitulationcompendiumcondensationconspectuscurriculum vitaeline scoreoutlineoverviewroundup

Other forms of summary

plural

summaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about summary

What does summary mean?

summary means "performed speedily and without formality". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in summary?

summary has 3 syllables: sum-ma-ry. The stress falls on "sum". In IPA it is /ˈsʌmɚi/.

What is another word for summary?

Close synonyms include drumhead, compendious, compact, succinct, sum-up. 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 summary a common word?

summary 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.