Usually means: Ignoring or belittling someone's importance.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dismissive: Merriam-Webster
  2. dismissive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dismissive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dismissive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dismissive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dismissive, dismissive: Wordnik
  7. dismissive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dismissive: Wiktionary
  9. dismissive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dismissive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Dismissive, dismissive: Dictionary.com
  12. dismissive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Dismissive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. dismissive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. dismissive: Rhymezone
  16. dismissive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. dismissive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. dismissive: FreeDictionary.org
  19. dismissive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. dismissive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. dismissive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dismissive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dismissive: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Showing disregard, indicating rejection, serving to dismiss.

Similar:
uninterested, negative, disapproving, refuse, disconfirmatory, disapprobatory, abjected, deprecatory, disparent, dissuasory, more...

Opposite:
accepting, approving, tolerant

Types:
snarky, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, witty, ironic, sneering, more...

Phrases:
dismissive people, dismissive person, dismissive call, dismissive sound, sarcastic dismissive, more...

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Similar:
uninterested, negative, disapproving, refuse, disconfirmatory, disapprobatory, abjected, deprecatory, disparent, dissuasory, more...

Opposite:
accepting, approving, tolerant

Types:
snarky, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, witty, ironic, sneering, more...

Phrases:
dismissive people, dismissive person, dismissive call, dismissive sound, sarcastic dismissive, dismissive of other peoples concerns, dismissive visage, dismissive noise, short dismissive, more...

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