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

• dismissingly

 

Verb

dismissing

1. present participle and gerund of dismiss