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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dismissed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /dɪsˈmɪst/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. Not having been considered; treated as unimportant; rejected.
    • I was tearing up, feeling completely out of control, very dismissed. 2013, Tracy L. Matteson, Funny You Should Ask, page 153:
    • 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:
    • 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:
  2. Having been fired or let go; having had one's employment terminated.
    • 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:
    • During the notice period all dismissed employees – regardless of whether the dismissals was due to economic reasons or incompetence – are entitled to a minimum of two hours per week to search for employment. 2016, Connecting People with Jobs, page 115:
    • 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. 2006, Tim Connor, Kelly Dent, Offside!: Labour Rights and Sportswear Production in Asia, page 36:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more dismissed Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most dismissed Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

undismissed

dismissed en · INTJ

Pronunciation

  • /dɪsˈmɪst/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

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

dismissed en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /dɪsˈmɪst/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of dismiss
    form of dismiss