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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How to use sum in a sentence?

1. Robert Frost:

   In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

2. Mandy Grunwald:

   The reaction in our party implies that it's a zero-sum game : We only talk about Donald Trump or we never talk about Donald Trump. We're in the' and' zone. People want to talk about the economy and what's happening in people's lives, and all kinds of stuff, but you just can't ignore this. It's that sense that you have to choose, it's one or the other : Because Terry McAuliffe didn't win, and Terry McAuliffe talked about Donald Trump, that's the end of it. That's nonsense.

3. Anonymous:

   Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.

4. E. M. Cioran:

   Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

5. Luiz Carlos Moraes:

   The federal government would have as collateral a sum from the federal government.