dismiss

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb bar from attention or consideration
  2. verb cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
  3. verb stop associating with

Etymology

Middle English, from Latin dimissus (“sent away, dismissed, banished”), perfect passive participle of dīmittō (“send away, dismiss”), from dis- + mittere (“to send”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore

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