MEANING
Quickly and without the usual discussion, detailed consideration, or formal procedure.
Use it for
criticizing dismissal without considering the evidence; describing a decision made without ordinary safeguards; contrasting abrupt rejection with reasoned evaluationIdentifies abrupt disposal without fuller consideration rather than merely a negative decision. Academic functions: Argumentation, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- summarily dismiss an argument
- summarily reject an application
- summarily dispose of a case
On the page
The reviewer should not summarily dismiss the alternative interpretation merely because it is unfamiliar.
The archival record shows that several petitions were summarily rejected without the hearings available to other applicants.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- summarily
Usage notes
Adverb: summarily dismiss, reject, or dispose of. No inflection or routine comparison. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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