SUMMING UP Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˌsə-miŋ-ˈəp

as in summary

a short statement of the main points there's no time to get into all the details, so could you give me a quick summing-up?

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summing up

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verb

present participle of sum up

as in summarizing

to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report) in summing up the evidence against the defendant, the district attorney presented fact after damning fact

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Noun

Directed by Rebecca Miller, wife of occasional Scorsese collaborator Daniel Day-Lewis, the series is a worthy summing-up of one of the great careers in cinematic history. —

Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025 Not every documentarian’s first-person contributions enrich the proceedings, but here the quest hits all the right notes, and the gathering of voices feels like a place to begin rather than a mere summing-up. —

Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025 Maurice Drake, the judge in his trial, also presided over the Bridgewater case, in which he was accused of misdirecting the jury with a biased summing-up. —

Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024 What’s fascinating about it is that it’s explicitly offered as a summing-up statement from Godard to the world. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2024

Verb

Perhaps summing up her Survivor experience to a T, Wendy Jo got lost walking out of Tribal Council after having her torch snuffed. —

Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026 Well, summing up Tyreek’s time with the Dolphins, similar to as summing up Tyreek, is complicated. —

Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2026 Windass struggled, the sight of the 31-year-old dropping so deep 10 minutes from time to take the ball off Max Cleworth inside his own half summing up how disjointed the visitors had become. —

Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025 Many Reddit users chimed in to offer their perspective, with one commenter summing up the sentiment shared by many. —

Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025

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Noun

The general format for interviews, subject to change, is to have each candidate make a three-minute introduction, answer brief questions from council members, then deliver a one-minute summary.

— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
With respect to Google, the suit says the company’s core search engine and its artificial intelligence summary feature called AI mode were responsible for publishing victims’ personal information.

— Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026