summary treatment

1. 1.

   a brief and unsympathetic rejection

   “they made short shrift of my request”

   Synonymsshort shrift

   Broaderrejection

Questions about summary treatment

What does summary treatment mean?

summary treatment means "a brief and unsympathetic rejection".

What is another word for summary treatment?

Close synonyms include short shrift. 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 treatment a common word?

summary treatment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.