Fugacious vs Summary - What's the difference?
fugacious | summary | Related terms |
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
* 1906 , O. Henry, "", in The Four Million :
* 1916 , George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye ,
* 2011 , Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography , Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ISBN 9780307272973,
Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
(legal) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
Fugacious is a related term of summary.
As adjectives the difference between fugacious and summary
is that fugacious is fleeting, fading quickly, transient while summary is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.As a noun summary is
an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.fugacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.
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- Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious , and often accompanied by intense headache
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- It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.
Derived terms
* fugaciously * fugaciousnesssummary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A summary review is in the appendix.
- They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
- Summary justice is bad justice.
