summarisk

Swedish

Adjective

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

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

Declension

Inflection of summarisk
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular summarisk — —
neuter singular summariskt — —
plural summariska — —
masculine plural2 summariske — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 summariske — —
all summariska — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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