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dismissed

Syllables: dis·missed/dɪsˈmɪst/

dismissed adjective: not having been considered; treated as unimportant; rejected. Also the simple past and past participle of dismiss.

Adjective

dismissed (comparative more dismissed, superlative most dismissed)

  1. Not having been considered; treated as unimportant; rejected.
    • Eve and the "concrete woman" are no more dismissed than Adam and the "concrete man" but are represented as capable of being converted and saved.1995, Manfred Hauke, God Or Goddess?: Feminist Theology : what is It?, page 201
    • I was tearing up, feeling completely out of control, very dismissed.2013, Tracy L. Matteson, Funny You Should Ask, page 153
  2. Having been fired or let go; having had one's employment terminated.
    • Since this time BPG factory management have reneged on this agreement and stated they will only reemploy the dismissed workers at a separate facility — an hour away from the current one, an offer rejected by the workers, who have the right to return to the same factory and to their previous...2006, Tim Connor, Kelly Dent, Offside!: Labour Rights and Sportswear Production in Asia, page 36
    • Future studies can examine its other antecedents and its consequences to both the firm and to the dismissed CEO.2011, Mason Andrew Carpenter, M. Keith Weikel, The Handbook of Research on Top Management Teams, page 382

Interjection

  1. Used to indicate that an interaction is at an end and that the listener should leave.

Also used as

dismissed is also the simple past and past participle of dismiss.

dismissed meaning in Bengali, Kannada, Punjabi and Gujarati

dismissed in Bengali

বরখাস্ত

dismissed in Kannada

ವಜಾಗೊಳಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ, ವಜಾಗೊಂಡರು

dismissed in Punjabi

ਬਰਖਾਸਤ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ, ਬਰਖਾਸਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ

dismissed in Gujarati

બરતરફ કરાયો, બરતરફ
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dismissed in Odia
ବରଖାସ୍ତ

Examples of dismissed in a sentence

  • The more generic you are when you communicate with someone, the more dismissed they feel.2018, Nicole Dreiske, The Upside of Digital Devices, page 52:
  • And maybe Hazira was always going to be a gooey marshland, but that doesn't mean you entice the nation's poorest and most dismissed groups to live there.2023, Rob Verchick, The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience:

Forms of dismissed

comparativemore dismissed
superlativemost dismissed

Words formed from dismissed

Words that rhyme with dismissed

43 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about dismissed

What does dismissed mean?
Dismissed means not having been considered; treated as unimportant; rejected.
What is dismissed in Bengali?
Dismissed in Bengali is বরখাস্ত. See Dismissed meaning in Bengali.
How do you use dismissed in a sentence?
The more generic you are when you communicate with someone, the more dismissed they feel.
What part of speech is dismissed?
Dismissed can be an adjective or an interjection.
How do you pronounce dismissed?
Dismissed is pronounced /dɪsˈmɪst/.

Words near dismissed in the dictionary

  1. dismiss
  2. dismissable
  3. dismissably
  4. dismissal
  5. dismissals
  6. dismissed
  7. dismissee
  8. dismissees
  9. dismisser
  10. dismissers
  11. dismisses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dismissed (page history and authors); dismissed (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dismissed (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dismissed (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dismissed (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dismissed (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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