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Fugitive vs Summary - What's the difference?

fugitive | summary | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between fugitive and summary

is that fugitive is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution while summary is an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

As adjectives the difference between fugitive and summary

is that fugitive is fleeing or running away while summary is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.

fugitive

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fleeing or running away
  • transient, fleeting or ephemeral
  • elusive or difficult to retain
  • summary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
  • A summary review is in the appendix.
  • Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
  • They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
  • (legal) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
  • Summary justice is bad justice.

    Noun

    (wikipedia summary) (summaries)
  • An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
  • Synonyms

    * upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)

    Derived terms

    * executive summary * management summary