summary

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 36.47 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   A summary review is in the appendix.

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

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

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

   The matter was brought to a close by summary dismissal of the cases.

4. noun 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.

Similar words

concise succinct compendious summarization compact drumhead unofficial succinctly terse abridgement

Often followed by

of and judgment the in this report is

Word family

summaries summarily summarisation summarisations summarise summarised summarises summarising summarization summarizations