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What is the adjective for dismissal?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb dismiss which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dismissive
  1. Showing disregard, indicating rejection, serving to dismiss.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contemptuous, scornful, disdainful, sneering, disparaging, negative, perfunctory, scathing, snide, derisive, dimissory, sniffy, snotty, unenthusiastic, insulting, slighting, contumelious, denigratory, mocking, scoffing, derisory, jeering, derogatory, belittling, deprecatory, pejorative, uncomplimentary, degrading, demeaning, depreciatory, depreciative, derogative, sarcastic, denigrative, decrying, detractive, abusive, withering, caustic, taunting, cynical, sardonic, ridiculing, detracting, jibing, teasing, sarky, pillorying, lampooning, snidey … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The first public address earned the secretary of state an undisguised and dismissive rebuke from his president.”
      “Please do not interpret my comment as dismissive towards the issues that may arise.”
      “The Prime Minister was lambasted for allegedly making a dismissive comment about the current crisis.”
dismissable
  1. Capable of being dismissed.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. waivable, relinquishable, abandonable, dismissible
  3. Examples:
      4. “Amid the ensuing furore, the International Board made spitting a dismissable offence, on a par with violent conduct.”
      “A welter of notice boards reminds workers that defecation outside the provided conveniences is a dismissable offence.”
      “There were comforting, unheard, easily dismissable murmurings now and again.”
dismissible
  1. That may be dismissed
  2. Synonyms:
      3. waivable, relinquishable, abandonable, dismissable
  3. Examples:
      4. “Time may appear puzzling in the film, but Gondry offers many clues that appear in the form of minute, seemingly dismissible details.”
      “If these suggestions are implemented, even in phases, as financial allotments would allow, taking a bus will no longer be a dismissible option.”
      “Representative Gohmert, a birther and a climate-change denier, is normally dismissible as an amusing eccentric, a self-lampooning clown.”
dismissed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dismiss
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lost, squandered, wasted, forfeited, missed, passed up, gave up, blew, disregarded, dropped, ignored, neglected, botched, bypassed, ceded, conceded, expended, frittered away, let pass, surrendered, waived, yielded, yold, abandoned, dropped the ball, failed to grasp, failed to take, failed to take advantage of, forewent, forwent, let go, let slip, lost out on, misdirected, misused, passed over, withwent … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Eventually, he was dismissed from the army due to his inability to cope with army life.”
dismissing
  1. present participle of dismiss
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sacking, firing, discharging, cashiering, removing, axing, ousting, releasing, terminating, retiring, expelling, bouncing, displacing, deposing, unseating, booting, defenestrating, disqualifying, unfrocking, suspending, bumping, impeaching, defrocking, deponing, deselecting, disemploying, disfrocking, furloughing, pensioning, recalling, shelving, booting out, kicking out, throwing out, laying off, making redundant, getting rid of, letting go, mustering out, sending packing, turning off, turfing out, showing the door, giving someone the boot, giving someone their notice, giving someone the sack, giving the heave-ho, giving someone the bullet, paying off, giving someone the push … more
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