sum

sum is a 3-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.
2. noun. A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.
3. noun. The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
4. noun. Height; completion; utmost degree.
5. noun. A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
6. transitive verb. To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.
7. transitive verb. To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
8. transitive verb. To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
9. noun. the whole amount

   Synonyms: aggregate, total, totality

10. noun. a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers

    Synonyms: amount, total

11. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith

12. noun. the final aggregate

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

    Synonyms: summation

13. noun. 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

14. noun. a quantity of money

    "he borrowed a large sum"

    "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"

    Synonyms: amount

15. verb. determine the sum of

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

    Synonyms: add, summate, tally, tot, total

16. verb. be a summary of

    "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

    Synonyms: summarise, summarize

Synonyms

aggregate, total, totality, amount, center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance, summation, join, union, add, summate, tally, tot

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sum:

mus, ums

Common word forms

sums, sumen, sumer, summed, summer, sumless, summing

Words from these letters

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