dismissing

English

Adjective

dismissing (comparative more dismissing, superlative most dismissing)

  1. Dismissive.
    • 2012, Judith Kay Nelson, What Made Freud Laugh: An Attachment Perspective on Laughter, page 171:
      When a dismissing patient comes in for therapy, however, positive arousal and laughter may play an important role in establishing the therapeutic attachment bond.
    • 2021, Lavona Fercho, Prime Ministers’ Wives: Those Who Endure:
      Aline was disillusioned and very dismissing of people not true to their word.
    • 2024, Anne Stuart, Blind Date from Hell:
      Her luminous tawny eyes were cool and emotionless, her perfectly tinted lips held only the most dismissing of smiles, except when it came to her friend.

Derived terms

Verb

dismissing

  1. present participle and gerund of dismiss
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