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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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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How to use sum in a sentence?

1. Albert Camus:

   The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.

2. President Bill Clinton:

   Even after two Supreme Court verdicts and a presidential election, they are still fighting to take us backwards, i think we can sum up the message from the Court and the American people: 'Move on.'.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   The president of the United States gave a speech that smeared half the country. He identified half the country as enemies of the state, his principles, the things that we have been living through these last now year and a half plus, I sum up in three ideas: woke, weak and waffling.

4. Lanhee Chen:

   I think they need to have a phrase that better encapsulates the sum total of what they're trying to do, which is complex, it's a huge messaging challenge and you have to acknowledge that.

5. Former US Attorney Timothy Heaphy:

   In sum, this was a poorly conceived plan that was not flexible enough to not accommodate changing conditions, good intentions, gone awry. Failure to communicate, failure to protect, all a product of the failure to prepare.