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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Recent Examples of summing-up

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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for summing-up

Noun

Create that profile or summary statement, frontload your strengths and best skills, write those descriptions of your best projects and achievements in jobs past, describe your volunteer and community work, share those hobbies and interests.

— Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2026
In an email correspondence, Alvarado also shared his own summary of the event and the nuanced topic of separating the actions of one individual from a larger movement.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2026