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say it: SUHM-ur-ee
summary is an adjective and noun meaning "performed speedily and without formality". It carries 3 recorded senses.
performed speedily and without formality
“a summary execution”
“summary justice”
briefly giving the gist of something
“a short and compendious book”
“a compact style is brief and pithy”
“succinct comparisons”
“a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject”
a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form
“he gave a summary of the conclusions”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for summary come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.