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Synonyms for summary
Synonyms for summary: drumhead and compact. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for summary
Interchangeable with summary in this sense
Audited under summary's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one summary carries in that sense.
- drumheadadjective, in the sense "performed speedily and without formality"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name summary as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- compactcompact is an adjective in the sense "briefly giving the gist of something"
The first group is filed under summary's own sense. The second reaches summary from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
performed speedily and without formality
A summary execution.
The true synonym
drumhead
Same sentence, swapped: A drumhead execution.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- compact
- spartan
- punctual
Where summary turns up in the game
summary is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where summary is the trap
- synthesisnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fusion, in the sense "a new whole created by combining separate elements or ideas", and summary is on the board beside it.
- compactadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is thick, in the sense "having a short and solid form or stature", so summary is there to be ruled out.
Play summary
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so summary reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other words at Summit, then their alphabetical neighbours.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. summary carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.