summary

From Medieval Latin summārius, from Latin summa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməɹi/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: summery

summary (comparative more summary, superlative most summary)

1. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form

   A summary review is in the appendix.

2. Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.

   They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.

3. (law) Performed by skipping the procedures of a standard and fair trial.

   Summary justice is bad justice.

• summarily
• summary dismissal

summary (plural summaries)

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

   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

• précis
• upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)
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