dismissed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈmɪst/
• Hyphenation: dis‧missed
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Adjective

dismissed (comparative more dismissed, superlative most dismissed)

1. Not having been considered; treated as unimportant; rejected.
   • 1995, Manfred Hauke, God Or Goddess?: Feminist Theology : what is It?, page 201:

     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.

   • 2013, Tracy L. Matteson, Funny You Should Ask, page 153:

     I was tearing up, feeling completely out of control, very dismissed.

   • 2018, Nicole Dreiske, The Upside of Digital Devices, page 52:

     The more generic you are when you communicate with someone, the more dismissed they feel.

   • 2023, Rob Verchick, The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience:

     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.

2. Having been fired or let go; having had one's employment terminated.
   • 2006, Tim Connor, ‎Kelly Dent, Offside!: Labour Rights and Sportswear Production in Asia, page 36:

     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.

   • 2011, Mason Andrew Carpenter, ‎M. Keith Weikel, The Handbook of Research on Top Management Teams, page 382:

     Future studies can examine its other antecedents and its consequences to both the firm and to the dismissed CEO.

   • 2016, Connecting People with Jobs, page 115:

     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.

Derived terms

• undismissed

 

Interjection

dismissed

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

Verb

dismissed

1. simple past and past participle of dismiss