dismiss

dis-miss · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    To order or allow someone to leave.

  2. 2.

    To remove someone from employment.

  3. 3.

    To refuse to consider something; to regard as unworthy of attention.

  4. 4.

    (Law) To end a court case without a decision.

Related words

Antonyms: accept, consider, employ, hire
See also: discharge, fire, reject
Synonyms: discard, discharge, fire, reject

Etymology

From Latin dimittere meaning "to send away," from dis- meaning "apart" and mittere meaning "to send." First recorded in English in the 15th century.