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Definition: Summarily |
SummarilyAdverb1. Without delay; in a summary manner; "the suspected spy was summarily executed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "summarily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conciseness | Adverb: concisely; Adjective: briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and the short of it is. |
Earliness | Suddenly; (instantaneously); before one can say "Jack Robinson", at short notice, extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; at once; on the spot, on the instant; at sight; offhand, out of hand; a' vue d'oeil; straight, straightway, straightforth; forthwith, incontinently, summarily, immediately, briefly, shortly, quickly, speedily, apace, before the ink is dry, almost immediately, presently at the first opportunity, in no long time, by and by, in a while, directly. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Summarily |
| English words defined with "summarily": co-opt, co-optation, co-option ♦ the Gordian knot, To cut the knot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "summarily": Get rolled on., Gone Up ♦ kill file ♦ Maul of Monks. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, your objections have been duly noted and summarily overruled. (Hollow Man; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson; Andrew W. Marlowe) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It uses it at its caprice, it takes from it by chance, and contents itself often, when the necessity arises, with summarily and grossly distorting it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Trinidad | These judgments do, however, form the basis of a debt on which the court can rule summarily. (references) |
Ethiopia | The Derg summarily executed 59 members of the royal family and ministers and generals of the emperor's government; Emperor Haile Selassie was strangled in the basement of his palace on August 22, 1975. (references) | |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | Reports indicate that the Taliban summarily executed approximately 300 Hazara men and boys. (references) |
Political Economy | Burkina Faso | During the year, there were credible reports that security forces summarily executed suspected criminals. (references) |
Sudan | The national, regional, and local authorities did not ensure due process, and the military forces summarily tried and punished citizens. (references) | |
Sudan | According to credible reports, government units summarily tried and punished those accused of crimes, especially for offenses against civil order. (references) | |
Trade | Mexico | U.S. exporters have encountered problems when products are added to the list without notice or importers are summarily dropped from the registry without prior notice or subsequent explanation. (references) |
Worker Rights | Turkey | Prosecutors may ask labor courts to order a trade union or confederation to suspend its activities or to go into liquidation for serious infractions, based on alleged violation of specific legal norms; however, the Government may not dissolve a union summarily. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Freedoms such as the freedom to speak out on issues we care about, a right that was summarily taken away in a midnight raid of the Constitution in some flimflam bill called campaign finance reform. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Summarily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Summarily" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 132 | 27,743 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "summarily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | незабавно (at once, forthwith, immediately, incontinently, instanter, instantly, promptly, right away, speedily, straight away, straightway), накратко (briefly, in brief, shortly), безцеремонно (offhand, offhandedly, without further ceremony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 概略地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | summittain (wholesale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | résiliation immédiate du contrat (to terminate the contract summarily), résiliation du contrat sans préavis (to terminate the contract summarily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | summarisch (summarizing, summary), kurzgefasst, knapp (almost, bald, bare, barely, barely sufficient, close, concise, concisely, crisp, curtly, just, just enough, laconic, laconically, lean, low, meager, meagre, narrow, pithy, rare, scantily, scantly, scanty, scarce, scarcely, scrimpy, short, skimpily, skimpy, slender, stinted, taut, tautly, terse, tersely, tight, tightly), flüchtig (brief, casual, cursorily, cursory, desultory, elusive, ephemeral, fleeting, fleetingly, flighty, fugitive, fugitively, momentary, non-permanent, passing, perfunctory, quick, sketchily, sketchy, slapdash, slight, volatile, volatilely, voltile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνοπτικώσ (synoptically), περιληπτικά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sommásan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 간략하게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ummarilysay sumar (abstract, compendious, concise, docket, epitome, hasty, resume, sketchy, summary), pe scurt (in brief, in few, in fine, shortly, the long and the short of it). (various references) бесцеремонно (familiarly, offhandedly, snippily, unceremoniously). (various references) summariskt, i korthet (briefly, in a nutshell). (various references) сумарно, коротко (briefly, close, in a nutshell, in few, in summary, short, shortly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acervatim. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Summarily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Somhairle, sumarily, summarilly, Summerill. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "summarily" (pronounced sume"rulē) |
| 7 | -u m e" r u l ē | customarily. |
| 6 | -m e" r u l ē | merrily, primarily. |
| 5 | -e" r u l ē | extraordinarily, militarily, momentarily, necessarily, ordinarily, preliminarily, secondarily, temporarily, voluntarily, warily, wearily. |
| 4 | -r u l ē | angrily, arbitrarily, centrally, cerebrally, eerily, florally, hungrily, morally, orally, orchestrally, satisfactorily, severally, statutorily, unnecessarily. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, annually, anomaly, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mentally, mercifully, methodically, metrically, mightily, mineralogically, minimally, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, presidentially, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, successfully, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, terminally, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-m-m-r-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: smarmily. | |
-2 letters: amylums, simular, summary. | |
-3 letters: amylum, asylum, imaums, larums, lyrism, miauls, mislay, murals, riyals, slummy, smarmy, urials. | |
-4 letters: alums, amirs, amyls, arils, arums, aryls, auris, imams, imaum, lairs, laris, larum, liars, limas, liras, mails, maims, mairs, malms, malmy, marls, marly, mauls, miasm, miaul, mural, muras, rails, rammy, ramus, rials, riyal, rummy, salmi, saury. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m-m-r-s-u-y" | |
+3 letters: immeasurably. | |
+4 letters: unsymmetrical. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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