要するに|ようするにyousuruni[3]nakadaka (mid-high)

1. expression, adverbin short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
   彼女かのじょは要ようするにおしゃべりなんだ。↗

   She is, in brief, a chatterbox.

• Synonym言いかえればNeutralMeans 'in other words'; it recasts the same idea in different wording, while 「要するに」 distills the conclusion.
• Related言ってみればいってみればCasualColloquial 'so to speak'; it adds a figurative, as-it-were comparison, whereas 「要するに」 sums up the key point.
• RelatedとりもなおさずWrittenWritten/formal prose meaning 'namely; that is to say'; it asserts two things are one and the same, not a summary.
• Related何もかも考え合わせてみるとNeutralA long phrase meaning 'all things considered'; it stresses a judgment reached after weighing every factor, not boiling things down to the point.
• Related全体的に見てNeutralMeans 'viewed as a whole'; it offers an overall assessment, while 「要するに」 condenses the main point.
• Related概していえばWrittenWritten/formal prose for 'broadly speaking'; it sums up a general tendency rather than stating a conclusion in a word.

Use 「要するに」 to sum up the point in a word; in speech 「つまり」 works too. For rephrasing pick 「言いかえれば」, for a figurative comparison 「言ってみれば」, and in formal writing 「取りも直さず」 stresses equivalence.

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1. 要約ようやくすれば。畢竟ひっきょう。つまり。