in a word

1. see in brief.

Example Sentences

You can sum it up in a word: Reform.

From BBC

The drug business is, in a word, big.

From Los Angeles Times

It looks, in a word, painful, and it is one of the first unmistakable biological signs that the colossus of our era is, in fact, a 79-year-old man who is going to encounter all sorts of bizarre, unpleasant, and funny-looking maladies as time marches forward.

From Slate

The feeling, in a word, is jubilant.

From Salon

Wambaugh’s characters were morally flexible, heroic, repugnant, compassionate, callous, deeply flawed, darkly comical — in a word, real.

From Los Angeles Times