Need another word that means the same as “dismiss”? Find 38 synonyms and 30 related words for “dismiss” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Dismiss” are: throw out, drop, send away, send packing, brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside, can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, terminate, usher out, dissolve, let go, release, free, give someone their notice, get rid of, discharge, banish, put away, set aside, lay aside, abandon, have done with, shrug off, forget, think no more of, pay no heed to, put out of one's mind
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dismiss” as a verb can have the following definitions:
abandon | Stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims. They abandoned themselves to despair. |
banish | Get rid of (something unwanted. A number of people were banished to Siberia for political crimes. |
brush aside | Remove with or as if with a brush. |
brush off | Rub with a brush, or as if with a brush. |
can | Preserve in a can or tin. There are many ways holidaymakers can take money abroad. |
discharge | Go off or discharge. Discharge one s duties. |
discount | Buy or sell (a bill of exchange) before its due date at less than its maturity value. I d heard rumours but discounted them. |
displace | Take the place of or have precedence over. The refugees were displaced by the war. |
disregard | Refuse to acknowledge. The body of evidence is too substantial to disregard. |
dissolve | Disappear. She suddenly dissolved into floods of tears. |
drop | Score a goal by a drop kick. She dropped a remark about having been included in the selection. |
fire | Drive out or away by or as if by fire. If I were to hear anyone speak slightingly of you I should fire up in a moment. |
force out | Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate. |
forget | Forget to do something. For years she had struggled to forget about him. |
free | Grant freedom to free from confinement. His inheritance freed him from financial constraints. |
get rid of | Go or come after and bring or take back. |
give notice | Leave with; give temporarily. |
give someone their notice | Estimate the duration or outcome of something. |
give the axe | Estimate the duration or outcome of something. |
give the sack | Execute and deliver. |
have done with | Organize or be responsible for. |
ignore | Bar from attention or consideration. The rules ignore one important principle of cricket. |
lay aside | Lay eggs. |
let go | Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract. |
pay no heed to | Convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow. |
push aside | Press against forcefully without moving. |
put away | Make an investment. |
put out of one's mind | Adapt. |
release | Release as from one s grip. Release the holdings in the dictator s bank account. |
sack | Put into a sack or sacks. Any official found to be involved would be sacked on the spot. |
send away | Transfer. |
send packing | Transfer. |
set aside | Locate. |
shrug off | Raise one’s shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation. |
terminate | Terminate the employment of discharge from an office or position. Adamson s putting pressure on me to terminate you. |
think no more of | Focus one’s attention on a certain state. |
throw out | Move violently, energetically, or carelessly. |
usher out | Take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums. |
abandon | Cease to support or look after (someone); desert. She danced with abandon. |
bin | Throw something away by putting it in a bin. She was a bit weird so I binned her off. |
blithe | Showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper. A blithe seaside comedy. |
carelessly | In a rakish manner. He replied carelessly. |
connive | Secretly allow (something immoral, illegal, or harmful) to occur. Government officials were prepared to connive in impeding the course of justice. |
crass | Showing no intelligence or sensitivity. The crass assumptions that men make about women. |
disband | Cause to break up or cease to function. From today the choir shall be disbanded. |
discard | Anything that is cast aside or discarded. Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded. |
dispose | Give, sell, or transfer to another. The government proposed but the trade union movement disposed. |
disregard | The action or state of paying no attention to something. The body of evidence is too substantial to disregard. |
dump | A piece of land where waste materials are dumped. She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man. |
eliminate | Eliminate from the body. The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race. |
ignore | Fail to consider (something significant. The rules ignore one important principle of cricket. |
jettison | The action of jettisoning something. Six aircraft jettisoned their loads in the sea. |
junk | Junk bonds. You do anything for junk cheat lie steal. |
leave | Go and leave behind either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness. Leave lots of time for the trip. |
leaving | The act of departing. |
lighthearted | Carefree and happy and lighthearted. Her lighthearted nature. |
neglect | The state of something that has been unused and neglected. The place had a hopeless air of neglect. |
overlook | Bewitch with the evil eye. He was overlooked by the Nobel committee. |
quiet | With little or no activity or no agitation quiet is a nonstandard variant for quietly. The street was quiet. |
rebuff | Reject outright and bluntly. I asked her to be my wife and was rebuffed in no uncertain terms. |
reject | Reject with contempt. Reject china plates. |
resign | Accept as inevitable. Four deputies resigned their seats. |
snub | Refuse to acknowledge. The move was a snub to the government. |
squander | Spend extravagantly. You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree. |
terminate | Terminate the employment of discharge from an office or position. The chain terminated in an iron ball covered with spikes. |
tranquilize | Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to. |
trash | An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant. Clubs patronized by rock trash. |
waste | Run off as waste. The icy wastes of the Antarctic. |
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