dismissed

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

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.

dismissed

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

dismissed

1. simple past and past participle of dismiss