summary
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
summary
adj 1: performed speedily and without formality; "a summary
execution"; "summary justice" [syn: {drumhead},
{summary}]
2: 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" [syn: {compendious}, {compact}, {succinct},
{summary}]
n 1: a brief statement that presents the main points in a
concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions" [syn:
{summary}, {sum-up}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Summary \Sum"ma*ry\, a. [Cf. F. sommaire. See {Sum}.]
1. Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow
compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise;
compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary
process; to take summary vengeance.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Short; brief; concise; compendious; succinct.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
141 Moby Thesaurus words for "summary":
Spartan, abbreviated, abbreviation, abridged, abridgement,
abridgment, abrupt, abstract, account, accounts, alert, apocope,
aposiopestic, apt, body count, brief, brusque, capitulation,
census, clipped, close, compact, compacted, compendious,
compendium, compressed, compression, concise, condensation,
condensed, consolidation, conspectus, contracted, copy, core,
count, crisp, critique, curt, curtailment, curtal, curtate, cut,
decisive, decurtate, digest, distillate, docked, drumhead,
dwelling upon, elaboration, elision, ellipsis, elliptic,
encapsulation, epigrammatic, epitome, epitomization, essence,
expeditious, foreshortening, gist, gnomic, going over, head count,
immediate, instant, instantaneous, inventory, iteration, laconic,
little, low, main point, meat, nose count, outline, peremptory,
perfunctory, pith, pithy, pointed, practicing, precis, prompt,
pruned, punctual, quick, ready, reaffirmation, recap,
recapitulation, recital, reckoning, recount, recountal, recounting,
reduction, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, repertory,
reprint, reserved, restatement, resume, retelling, retrenchment,
review, roundup, run-through, rundown, sententious, short,
short and sweet, shortened, shortening, speedy, statement,
substance, succinct, sum, sum and substance, summation, summing,
summing up, summing-up, swift, syncope, synopsis, synopsized,
synoptic, taciturn, telescoping, terse, tight, to the point,
transient, truncated, truncation
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