dismissible
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6.6
- adjective
- /dɪsˈmɪsəbl/
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desechable
- However, I had only one answer—that letters were coming from beyond the grave, and this answer was useless, dismissible without hesitation.
Examples
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Essentially, I want to have some function that makes it dismissible and I am going to do that.
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If, because of these discrepancies, Christianity were dismissible, there would, of course, be no problem.
Academic text (1993) -
All the comparisons between James Cameron's historical epic and the Twilight films are dismissible for their major difference.
Blog text (11) -
36 activists of the Lower East Side Health Council-South, a government-mandated watchdog, increasingly believed that Beth Israel Medical Center, a private affiliate of Gouverneur that actually received the OEO funds, viewed it as a dismissible token.
Academic text (2011) -
The team's lack of evidence made their claims completely dismissible during the meeting.
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His excuses were so weak that they were dismissible without further discussion.
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Because the proposal lacked detail, it was deemed dismissible by the committee.
Synonyms
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6.4
At risk of losing your job because of bad work
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6.6
Can be removed from a debt or legal responsibility
Can be refused or not accepted
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Morphology
Etymology
The word dismissible comes from the first part dis- meaning 'away' and the root miss meaning 'send', the same root you see in dismiss and mission. So something dismissible can be 'sent away' or removed, which is why it means 'able to be dismissed'.