dismissed
/dɪsˈmɪst/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.20 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not having been considered; treated as unimportant; rejected.
adj
Having been fired or let go; having had one's employment terminated.
verb
simple past and past participle of dismiss
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I was tearing up, feeling completely out of control, very dismissed."
- "The more generic you are when you communicate with someone, the more dismissed they feel."
- "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."
- "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 positions."
- "Future studies can examine its other antecedents and its consequences to both the firm and to the dismissed CEO."
Inflected Forms
more dismissed (comparative)
most dismissed (superlative)