Dismissed Dismiss Dɪsˈmɪs Suggestion I Longer Thinking Dismissing

• i think we can safely dismiss their objections.
• vegetarians are no longer dismissed as cranks.
• he dismissed the opinion polls as worthless.
• the suggestion should not be dismissed out of hand (= without thinking about it).

dismiss

1. to decide that somebody/something is not important and not worth thinking or talking about
• synonym wave somethingaside/away
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/wave-away
• I think we can safely dismiss their objections.
• Vegetarians are no longer dismissed as cranks.
• He dismissed the opinion polls as worthless.
• The suggestion should not be dismissed out of hand (= without thinking about it).
2. to put thoughts or feelings out of your mind
• Dismissing her fears, she climbed higher.
• He dismissed her from his mind.
3. to officially remove somebody from their job
• synonym fire
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fire_2
• She claims she was unfairly dismissed from her post.
4. to send somebody away or allow them to leave
• At 12 o'clock the class was dismissed.
5. to say that a trial or legal case should not continue, usually because there is not enough evidence
• The case was dismissed.
6. to end the innings of a player or team
• See related entries: Cricket
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/cricket/dismiss_2

Extra Examples

• Former members of the band have dismissed talk of a comeback.
• He dismissed her suggestion out of hand.
• He was summarily dismissed from his job.
• His plan was dismissed outright by his friends.
• It is easy to dismiss him as nothing more than an old fool.
• It is no longer possible to dismiss the link between climate change and carbon emissions.
• It was not easy to dismiss the matter from his thoughts.
• She contemptuously dismissed their complaints.
• She could not dismiss the possibility of his guilt.
• She dismissed their arguments as irrelevant.
• She tried to dismiss the idea from her mind.
• Such reports are routinely dismissed as hysteria.
• The court ruled that Ms Hill had been unfairly dismissed.
• The minister has dismissed all the allegations against him.
• ‘Case dismissed!’
• Judges have to state their reasons for dismissing a case.
• She claims she was unfairly dismissed from her position.
• The suggestion should not be dismissed out of hand.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they dismiss
• he / she / it dismisses
• past simple dismissed
• past participle dismissed
• -ing form dismissing

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from medieval Latin dismiss-, variant of Latin dimiss- ‘sent away’, from the verb dimittere.