Summary Synonyms and Antonyms

sŭmə-rē
Marked by or consisting of few words that are carefully chosen
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. compendious
  2. succinct
  3. brief
  4. concise
  5. laconic
  6. drumhead
  7. compact
  8. lean
  9. short
  10. terse
Antonyms:
  1. lengthy
  2. in full
  3. long
  4. long-winded
  5. wordy
  6. unabridged

Words Related to Summary

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Summary Sentence Examples

  • When I finished they turned to me for a summary.

  • The materials for the study of their institutions and population are abundant, but lend themselves to discussion rather than to a summary of admitted facts.

  • The history of the letters must be given in summary.

  • This Austrian reformation was so typical of other changes elsewhere, and so expressive of the previous disabilities of the Jews, that, even in this rapid summary, space must be spared for some of the details supplied by Graetz.

  • The brilliant summary of the historian Thucydides in the famous Funeral Speech of Pericles (delivered in 430), in which the social life, the institutions and the culture of his country are set forth as a model, gives a substantially true picture of Athens in its greatest days.

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