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Definition: Dismissive |
DismissiveAdjective1. Showing indifference or disregard; "a dismissive shrug". 2. Tending to dismiss or reject; "a dismissive gesture". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dismissive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Crosswords: Dismissive |
| English words defined with "dismissive": sign, signal, signalize. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Gravity, said Dirk with a slightly dismissive shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Yemen | The issue of violence against women became a topic of heated public debate in 2000 following the murder of two female students at Sana'a University's medical school and extensive press reports documenting the authorities' dismissive treatment of the female students' concerns and inadequate attention to their security. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Robert Novak | Mr. Chairman, Director Mueller was first rather dismissive of the charges of incompetency by Coleen Rowley, the FBI agent that sent the letter to him, but he came back this week and commended Ms. Rowley for her whistle-blowing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Dismissive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.36% of the time. "Dismissive" is used about 312 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.36% | 310 | 16,399 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.64% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 312 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dismissive": self-dismissive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dismissive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | pohrdavý (contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, supercilious), přezíravý (cavalier, disdainful, disparaging, scornful). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | wegwerfend (disdainful, trashing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | elutasító (negative, repulsive). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 퇴거시키". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ismissiveday освобождающий. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dismissive": dismissively. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dismissive" (pronounced di'smi"siv) |
| 5 | -m i" s i v | missive, permissive, submissive. |
| 4 | -i" s i v | derisive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, depressive, discursive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, massive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obsessive, obtrusive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive, unresponsive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-i-m-s-s-s-v" | |
-2 letters: missives. | |
-3 letters: dismiss, missies, missive. | |
-4 letters: deisms, diesis, dismes, disses, imides, isseis, missed, misses, missis, seisms. | |
-5 letters: deism, dimes, disme, dives, imide, imids, issei, ivied, ivies, medii, midis, mises, seism, semis, sides, sises, vised, vises. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-i-m-s-s-s-v" | |
+2 letters: dismissively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 6D 69 73 73 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -- .. ... ... .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01101101 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s m i s s i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 006D 0069 0073 0073 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758579758585758871 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, cseh, 체", чешский |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | nìmec, nìmecký, német, 독일, немецкий |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Ungar, magyar, 헝가리, венгр, венгерский |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | korejec, korejština, korejský, koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, кореец, корейский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, orosz, 러시아, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglicky, englisch, angol, 영국, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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