summarisk

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Swedish

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Adjective

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summarisk (not comparable)

  1. summary (giving only the main features)
    en summarisk redogörelse för resultatet av förhandlingarna
    a summary account of the results of the proceedings
    en summarisk beskrivning av olycksförloppet
    a thumbnail sketch [summary description] of the course of the accident
    en summarisk översikt
    a summary overview
    Artikeln är rätt summarisk
    The article is pretty brief / doesn't go into much detail / summary
  2. not going into much depth; cursory, brief
    en summarisk undersökning av patienten
    a cursory examination of the patient
  3. (law) summary
    De tre motståndsmännen avrättades genom arkebusering efter en summarisk rättegång
    The three members of the resistance were executed by firing squad after a brief show trial / summary trial [see usage notes]
    summariska avrättningar
    summary executions

Usage notes

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"Summarisk rättegång" (summary trial) normally implies a brief show trial or the like.

Declension

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Inflection of summarisk
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular summarisk
Neuter singular summariskt
Plural summariska
Masculine plural3 summariske
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 summariske
All summariska
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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