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dismissing

dismissing adjective: dismissive. Also the present participle and gerund of dismiss.

Adjective

dismissing (comparative more dismissing, superlative most dismissing)

  1. Dismissive.
    • When a dismissing patient comes in for therapy, however, positive arousal and laughter may play an important role in establishing the therapeutic attachment bond.2012, Judith Kay Nelson, What Made Freud Laugh: An Attachment Perspective on Laughter, page 171
    • Aline was disillusioned and very dismissing of people not true to their word.2021, Lavona Fercho, Prime Ministers’ Wives: Those Who Endure

Also used as

dismissing is also the present participle and gerund of dismiss.

dismissing meaning in Punjabi and Odia

dismissing in Punjabi

ਬਰਖਾਸਤ ਕਰਨਾ

dismissing in Odia

ବରଖାସ୍ତ କରିବା, ଖାରଜ କରିବା

Forms of dismissing

comparativemore dismissing
superlativemost dismissing

Words formed from dismissing

Questions about dismissing

What does dismissing mean?
Dismissing means dismissive.
What is dismissing in Punjabi?
Dismissing in Punjabi is ਬਰਖਾਸਤ ਕਰਨਾ. See Dismissing meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is dismissing?
Dismissing is an adjective.

Words near dismissing in the dictionary

  1. dismisses
  2. dismissest
  3. dismisseth
  4. dismissibility
  5. dismissible
  6. dismissing
  7. dismissingly
  8. dismission
  9. dismissions
  10. dismissive
  11. dismissively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dismissing (page history and authors); dismissing (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dismissing (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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