Synonyms for sum
sʌmsum

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1. sum

   Synonyms:
   aggregate, entirety, mass, quantity, sum total, total, whole

   Antonyms:
   atom, corpuscle, element, grain, iota, jot, mite, molecule, particle, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

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1. sumnoun

   Synonyms:
   aggregate, total, example, problem, whole, amount, quantity, collection, substance, gist, tenor, height, completion, drift, bearing

   Antonyms:
   part, portion, item, imperfection, incompleteness, miscalculation, misinterpretation

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1. sum, sum of money, amount, amount of moneynoun

   a quantity of money

   "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, sum total, marrow, meat, join, quantity, core, summation, total, aggregate, amount of money, union, gist, heart and soul, totality, sum of money, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, measure, amount, essence, heart, inwardness, pith

2. sum, amount, totalnoun

   a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, sum total, marrow, meat, join, quantity, core, summation, total, aggregate, amount of money, union, gist, heart and soul, totality, sum of money, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, measure, amount, essence, heart, inwardness, pith

3. sum, summation, sum totalnoun

   the final aggregate

   "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, rundown, sum total, marrow, meat, join, core, summation, total, aggregate, amount of money, union, gist, heart and soul, totality, sum of money, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, plus, amount, essence, summing up, heart, inwardness, pith, addition

4. kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-grittynoun

   the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

   "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"

   Synonyms:
   affection, summation, warmness, sum of money, sum total, means, affectionateness, substance, center of attention, center field, content, nucleus, plaza, meaning, meat, bone marrow, centre, burden, stub, center, tenderness, snapper, core, totality, marrow, heart and soul, fondness, total, nerve, core group, internality, marrow squash, nerve center, shopping center, aggregate, nub, join, kernel, nitty-gritty, union, spirit, centerfield, gist, warmheartedness, nerve centre, inwardness, centre of attention, pith, heart, shopping mall, nubble, bosom, mall, essence, ticker, message, pump, magnetic core, effect, mettle, shopping centre, perfume, spunk, philia, subject matter, amount of money, midpoint, vegetable marrow, eye, amount, middle

5. sum, total, totality, aggregatenoun

   the whole amount

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, sum total, marrow, meat, join, entirety, core, summation, total, aggregate, amount of money, union, gist, heart and soul, totality, sum of money, substance, nub, center, conglomeration, centre, kernel, amount, essence, entireness, congeries, heart, integrality, inwardness, pith

6. union, sum, joinverb

   a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

   "let C be the union of the sets A and B"

   Synonyms:
   trade union, marriage, matrimony, juncture, substance, wedlock, conglutination, meat, centre, jointure, center, summation, conjugation, core, unification, marrow, articulation, coupling, join, aggregate, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, mating, pairing, gist, trades union, inwardness, amount of money, pith, heart, amount, essence, junction, sum of money, heart and soul, labor union, brotherhood, totality, total, joint, union, spousal relationship, sum total, sexual union, uniting

7. summarize, summarise, sum, sum upverb

   be a summary of

   "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

   Synonyms:
   summarise, resume, sum up, add, summarize, total, tally, tot up, add up, summate, tote up, tot, add together

8. total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add upverb

   determine the sum of

   "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

   Synonyms:
   supply, tot, resume, tote up, bring, impart, hit, rack up, add, match, fit, add up, make sense, summarize, agree, tot up, sum up, chalk up, summarise, bestow, number, score, gibe, append, tally, correspond, come, add together, jibe, contribute, total, summate, lend, amount, check

Matched Categories

1. • Assets
   • Quantity

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1. sumnoun

   Synonyms:
   aggregate amount, total, totality, the whole, sum total, gross amount

2. sumnoun

   Synonyms:
   quantity of money

3. sumnoun

   Synonyms:
   SUMMARY, sum and substance

4. sumnoun

   Synonyms:
   question (in arithmetic), problem

5. sumverb

   Synonyms:
   add, add together, sum up, cast up

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1. sumnoun

   Synonyms:
   amount, total, aggregate, sum total, problem, example

2. sumverb

   Synonyms:
   cast up, add, compute, summarize

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1. List of paraphrases for "sum":

   amount, somme, yoshiro, mori, summary, summation, money, total, short, figure, utmost, suma, t, sen, quantity

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1. Thabiso Monkoe:

   The sum of all your mistakes are equal to your success

2. Sri da Avabhas:

   Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

3. Catherine Rampell:

   There are good ways to spend a huge sum of money, the kind of media coverage we have been getting doesn't really explore whether the kinds of things that are in this bill are meritorious or not … Instead, it's about the number.

4. Liu Pengyu:

   The remarks of the relevant Liu Pengyu congressmen are full of Cold War zero-sum thinking and ideological prejudice, the cooperation between China and the US in economic, financial and other fields is open and aboveboard. The US should take off The US colored glasses and stop disrupting local and non-governmental exchanges between the two countries.

5. John Calvin:

   The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.