APERÇU Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

aperçu

noun

Definition of aperçu

as in résumé

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as in impression

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Noun

Unlike many sports, in which the final score is simply a summation of the match and doesn’t tell you anything about how the story progressed, a tennis scoreline tells a narrative.

— Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 31 Aug. 2026
So, that’s a summation of something that used to be a fun day.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of summation

Noun

But while Jumbo’s has garnered a mythology as a magnet for filmmakers, writers and musicians who collect impressions, the dive’s dancers have shifted from being the subject to the artists.

— Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
To watch 2026 college football means receiving the impression that all of sports and politics are united in favor of a perfect bill, and none of that is the case.

— Jason Kirk, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of impression

Noun

The summaries have the stiff, cautious tone of a book report written by a student who only watched the movie.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
In financial institutions, this is extended, as AI copilots help analysts draft first-pass regulatory summaries, run stress-testing simulations, analyze trade anomalies and produce documentation for complex risk models.

— Peter Smulovics, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of summary

Noun

Since the end of the draft in 1973, according to my research, the success of military recruiting has largely hinged on young people’s perceptions of their chances for upward mobility.

— Jeremiah Favara, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
The psychological thriller/drama explores the aftermath of loss and the ambiguity between reality and perception.

— Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of perception

Noun

The attack on the independence of Stars and Stripes is a powerful recapitulation of earlier moments in American military history, moments which make clear the blind alley down which Hegseth is charging his brigades at full speed.

— Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2026
In this sense, the salt flats and their salty lakes are at once a living record and an ongoing recapitulation of billions of years of planetary history.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025

Definition of recapitulation

Noun

As for whether there are actual strategic reasons for his dominance in Armstrong, Tiafoe dismissed the notion.

— Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Only truly sophisticated taste, in this code, grasps the superiority of deprivation over the more ethnic notions of actual comfort and good food.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of notion

Noun

Orient yourself with an overview of the city – literally – at the STAM, or Museum of Ghent, with a vast aerial photo to walk across, among varied exhibits including 13th-century frescos.

— Adrienne Wyper, TheWeek, 17 Sep. 2026
On the website, visitors can find an overview of the Basilica’s architecture and a close examination of individual frescoes and details that cannot be seen in person.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of overview

Noun

The strange aspect of Hughes’s two-and-a-half-year spell at Liverpool is that appraisals of his performance fluctuated so wildly — and rarely presciently.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
According to Ali Hafezi, the co-owner of a rug restoration and appraisal company, synthetic fiber rugs are among the easiest rugs to clean.

— Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 1 Sep. 2026

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