Unscramble sum

Definition of sum

noun:

• a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum", "the amount he had in cash was insufficient". Synonyms: amount, amount of money, sum of money.
• a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers. Synonyms: amount, total.
• the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered". Synonyms: sum total, summation.
• 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: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance.
• the whole amount. Synonyms: aggregate, total, totality.
• 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: join, union.

verb:

• be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper". Synonyms: sum up, summarise, summarize.
• determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town". Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up.

Related words

advance, aggregate, congeries, conglomeration, contribution, coverage, deductible, defalcation, figure, gain, gross, haecceity, hypostasis, loss, payroll, paysheet, peanuts, purse, quiddity, quintessence, receipts, red, revenue, stuff, subtotal.

Words nearby

aum, bum, cum, gum, hum, mum, qum, rum, sam, scum, sium, slum, sm, som, stm, sub, sue, sumo, sump, sun, sup, sur, sus, suv, tum.

Rhymes with

alum, become, breadcrumb, bum, chum, come, crumb, cum, drum, dumb, glum, gum, hum, mum, numb, plum, plumb, rum, scum, slum.