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summary

adj · name · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: summery
  • CMU ARPABET: S AH1 M ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Near-synonym: abstractive
  • A summary review is in the appendix.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: summative, summarizing[participial adjective|part. adj.]]>, abstractive

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Near-synonym: extrajudicial
  • They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: extrajudicial

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: law

Examples

  • The matter was brought to a close by summary dismissal of the cases.
  • The summary executions caused outrage.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: expedited, expeditious

4

name

Meaning 4

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so I read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.
  • make a summary of the events

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adjective satellite

Meaning 6

briefly giving the gist of something

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a short and compendious book
  • a compact style is brief and pithy
  • succinct comparisons
  • a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: compendious, compact, succinct

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective satellite

Meaning 7

performed speedily and without formality

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a summary execution
  • summary justice

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drumhead

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he gave a summary of the conclusions

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sum-up

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: statement

Narrower terms: argument, literary argument, capitulation, compendium, condensation, abridgement, abridgment, capsule, conspectus, curriculum vitae, CV, resume, line score, outline, synopsis, abstract, precis, overview, roundup, sketch, survey, summation, summing up, rundown

History

Etymology

From Middle English summary, from Medieval Latin summārius, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives).

From Medieval Latin summārium, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārium (suffix forming nouns of purpose).

Across languages

Translations

186 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: сбит (sbit) — concise
  • Bulgarian: кратък (kratǎk) — concise
  • Catalan: sumari — concise
  • Czech: stručný — concise
  • Esperanto: maldetala — concise
  • Finnish: tiivistetty — concise
  • Finnish: lyhyt — concise
  • French: sommaire — concise
  • French: résumé — concise
  • Galician: conciso — concise
  • Georgian: მოკლე გადმოცემა (moḳle gadmocema) — concise
  • Georgian: შეჯამება (šeǯameba) — concise
  • German: zusammenfassend — concise
  • Hungarian: összefoglaló — concise
  • Hungarian: összefoglalt — concise
  • Hungarian: áttekintő — concise
  • Hungarian: kivonatolt — concise
  • Hungarian: rövidre fogott — concise
  • Irish: achomair — concise
  • Italian: sommario — concise
  • Italian: riassunto — concise
  • Italian: resoconto — concise
  • Italian: rapporto — concise
  • Italian: in breve — concise
  • Italian: in sintensi — concise
  • Japanese: 概略的な (gairyakuteki na) — concise
  • Malayalam: സാരസംഗ്രഹ (sārasaṅgraha) — concise
  • Malayalam: സംഗ്രഹ (saṅgraha) — concise
  • Polish: pobieżny — concise
  • Polish: krótki — concise
  • Portuguese: sumário — concise
  • Portuguese: resumido — concise
  • Spanish: sumario — concise
  • Swedish: summarisk — concise
  • Walloon: rascourti — concise
  • Bulgarian: безцеремонен (bezceremonen) — performed speedily
  • Catalan: sumari — performed speedily
  • Finnish: pika- — performed speedily
  • Finnish: summittainen — performed speedily
  • French: sommaire — performed speedily
  • Hungarian: gyorsított — performed speedily
  • Hungarian: rögtönítélő — performed speedily
  • Italian: sommario — performed speedily
  • Italian: sommaria — performed speedily
  • Polish: doraźny — performed speedily
  • Polish: przyśpieszony — performed speedily
  • Portuguese: sumário — performed speedily
  • Portuguese: resumo — performed speedily
  • Spanish: apurado — performed speedily
  • Spanish: a todo dar — performed speedily
  • Swedish: summarisk — performed speedily
  • Bulgarian: по съкратена процедура (po sǎkratena procedura) — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Catalan: sumari — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Finnish: pika- — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Finnish: summittainen — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • French: sommaire — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • German: standrechtlich — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Hungarian: sommás — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Italian: sommario — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Italian: sommaria — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Polish: doraźny — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Portuguese: sumário — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Portuguese: resumir — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Spanish: sumario — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Spanish: somero — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Swedish: summarisk — cutting the procedures of a normal trial
  • Afrikaans: opsomming — condensed presentation
  • Albanian: përmbledhje — condensed presentation
  • Arabic: خُلَاصَة (ḵulāṣa) — condensed presentation
  • Arabic: مُلَخَّص (mulaḵḵaṣ) — condensed presentation
  • Armenian: ամփոփում (ampʻopʻum) — condensed presentation
  • Armenian: համառոտ շարադրանք (hamaṙot šaradrankʻ) — condensed presentation
  • Asturian: resume — condensed presentation
  • Azerbaijani: xülasə — condensed presentation
  • Basque: laburpen — condensed presentation
  • Belarusian: рэзюмэ́ (rezjumé) — condensed presentation
  • Bulgarian: резюме́ (rezjumé) — condensed presentation
  • Catalan: resum — condensed presentation
  • Catalan: sumari — condensed presentation
  • Chinese Cantonese: 摘要 (zaak6 jiu3) — condensed presentation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 摘要 (zhāiyào) — condensed presentation
  • Cornish: berrskrif — condensed presentation
  • Czech: souhrn — condensed presentation
  • Czech: shrnutí — condensed presentation
  • Czech: resumé — condensed presentation
  • Danish: resume — condensed presentation
  • Danish: resumé — condensed presentation
  • Dutch: samenvatting — condensed presentation
  • Dutch: overzicht — condensed presentation
  • Dutch: opsomming — condensed presentation
  • Esperanto: enhavtabelo — condensed presentation
  • Esperanto: resumo — condensed presentation
  • Estonian: resümee — condensed presentation
  • Estonian: kokkuvõte — condensed presentation
  • Finnish: yhteenveto — condensed presentation
  • Finnish: lyhennelmä — condensed presentation
  • Finnish: tiivistelmä — condensed presentation
  • French: résumé — condensed presentation
  • French: sommaire — condensed presentation
  • French: récapitulation — condensed presentation
  • French: compte rendu — condensed presentation
  • Galician: resumo — condensed presentation
  • Georgian: შემაჯამებელი (šemaǯamebeli) — condensed presentation
  • German: Zusammenfassung — condensed presentation
  • Greek: περίληψη (perílipsi) — condensed presentation
  • Greek: σύνοψη (sýnopsi) — condensed presentation
  • Hebrew: תַּמְצִית (tamtsít) — condensed presentation
  • Hindi: सारांश (sārāñś) — condensed presentation
  • Hindi: ख़ुलासा (xulāsā) — condensed presentation
  • Hungarian: összefoglaló — condensed presentation
  • Hungarian: összefoglalás — condensed presentation
  • Hungarian: összegzés — condensed presentation
  • Hungarian: kivonat — condensed presentation
  • Hungarian: áttekintés — condensed presentation
  • Hungarian: summázat — condensed presentation
  • Hungarian: foglalat — condensed presentation
  • Hungarian: esszencia — condensed presentation
  • Ido: rezumo — condensed presentation
  • Irish: achoimre — condensed presentation
  • Irish: achoimriú — condensed presentation
  • Italian: riassunto — condensed presentation
  • Italian: sommario — condensed presentation
  • Japanese: 要約 (yōyaku) — condensed presentation
  • Japanese: 概要 (gaiyō) — condensed presentation
  • Japanese: 大要 (taiyō) — condensed presentation
  • Kazakh: түйіндеме (tüiındeme) — condensed presentation
  • Khmer: សរុប (saʼrop) — condensed presentation
  • Korean: 요약 (yoyak) — condensed presentation
  • Korean: 개요 (gaeyo) — condensed presentation
  • Korean: 대요 (daeyo) — condensed presentation
  • Kyrgyz: кыскача (kıskaca) — condensed presentation
  • Lao: ສະລູບ (sa lūp) — condensed presentation
  • Lao: ສະລູບຄວາມ (sa lūp khuām) — condensed presentation
  • Latin: breviārium — condensed presentation
  • Latin: summārium — condensed presentation
  • Latvian: kopsavilkums — condensed presentation
  • Lithuanian: santrauka — condensed presentation
  • Macedonian: резиме́ (rezimé) — condensed presentation
  • Malay: ringkasan — condensed presentation
  • Malayalam: സംഗ്രഹം (saṅgrahaṁ) — condensed presentation
  • Malayalam: സാരസംഗ്രഹം (sārasaṅgrahaṁ) — condensed presentation
  • Māori: whakarāpopoto — condensed presentation
  • Māori: whakarāpopototanga — condensed presentation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: oppsummering — condensed presentation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sammendrag — condensed presentation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: resumé — condensed presentation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: resymé — condensed presentation
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: oppsummering — condensed presentation
  • Pashto: خلاصه (xolāsa) — condensed presentation
  • Persian: خلاصه (xolâse) — condensed presentation
  • Persian: چکیده (čakide) — condensed presentation
  • Polish: streszczenie — condensed presentation
  • Polish: skrót — condensed presentation
  • Polish: podsumowanie — condensed presentation
  • Portuguese: resumo — condensed presentation
  • Portuguese: sumário — condensed presentation
  • Romanian: rezumat — condensed presentation
  • Russian: резюме́ (rezjumɛ́) — condensed presentation
  • Russian: кра́ткое изложе́ние (krátkoje izložénije) — condensed presentation
  • Russian: ито́ги (itógi) — condensed presentation
  • Russian: конспе́кт (konspékt) — condensed presentation
  • Scottish Gaelic: giorrachadh — condensed presentation
  • Scottish Gaelic: geàrr-chunntas — condensed presentation
  • Serbo-Croatian: резѝме̄ — condensed presentation
  • Serbo-Croatian: саже́так — condensed presentation
  • Serbo-Croatian: rezìmē — condensed presentation
  • Serbo-Croatian: sažétak — condensed presentation
  • Slovak: zhrnutie — condensed presentation
  • Slovak: resumé — condensed presentation
  • Slovene: povzetek — condensed presentation
  • Spanish: resumen — condensed presentation
  • Spanish: sumario — condensed presentation
  • Swedish: sammanfattning — condensed presentation
  • Tagalog: buod — condensed presentation
  • Tajik: хулоса (xulosa) — condensed presentation
  • Thai: สรุป (sà-rùp) — condensed presentation
  • Turkish: özet — condensed presentation
  • Turkish: fezleke — condensed presentation
  • Ukrainian: пі́дсумок (pídsumok) — condensed presentation
  • Ukrainian: резюме́ (rezjumé) — condensed presentation
  • Ukrainian: сти́слий ви́клад (stýslyj výklad) — condensed presentation
  • Urdu: خُلاصَہ (xulāsā) — condensed presentation
  • Urdu: اختصار (ixtisār) — condensed presentation
  • Uzbek: xulosa — condensed presentation
  • Vietnamese: tóm tắt — condensed presentation
  • Yiddish: קיצור (kitser) — condensed presentation
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