to dismiss as
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4.6
- phrasal verb
:
desestimar como
- For these reasons, Roy Craig dismissed the incident as a hoax.
- dismiss as irrelevant
- dismiss as unimportant
- dismiss as nonsense
Negative comments I don't dismiss as trolls or haters.
- Negative comments I don't dismiss as trolls or haters.
- How would you have described that if not by dismissing it as political science fiction?
- That like that's how you would dismiss someone as being an idiot or annoying.
- Why does so many others belittle it or dismiss demands for normalcy as selfish?
- But I think we have to honor our own life experience and not dismiss it as unimportant.
- So that spoke to me amazingly because psychology is often dismissed as a sort of soft science.
- That's something that should be dismissed as, you know, mentally and morally dubious, to say the least.
- Sadly, the ones footing the bill are the innocent civilians who are blithely dismissed as collateral damage.
- People just dismiss these ideas as fanciful speculation for which there's no evidence.
- It could be quite easy to dismiss them as, like, feeling sorry for themselves, but they're not.
- And when you start looking, yeah, it's there, you can see it or it to the point where no, you cannot dismiss this as coincidence anymore.
Examples
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But I think we have to honor our own life experience and not dismiss it as unimportant.
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Officers closed ranks against critics of the army, whom they dismissed as ignorant of martial affairs.
Academic text (1990) -
I had heard of such a thing being done, but I had always dismissed it as impossible.
Fiction book (2000) -
One by one, they were dismissed as too personal, too controversial, or too long.
Academic text (2015) -
Our story was dismissed as being the product of hallucinogenic drugs.
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Now before you dismiss this idea as nonsense, consider how deeply we're influenced by it.
Academic text (2011) -
In response to the claim that the Korean economy is facing a crisis, the Deputy Prime Minister dismissed it as an unfounded rumor.
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More often, love and romance are simply dismissed as fantasy and debunked as illusion.
Academic text (2013) -
Optimism is often dismissed as false hope, but there is also false hopelessness.
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The teacher dismissed the student's concerns as irrelevant to the lesson.
Synonyms
332
3.0
To refuse to accept an idea or claim
75
4.2
To treat something as unimportant and ignore it
51
5.5
To show dislike and no respect for someone or something
45
5.0
To make someone or something seem not important
28
7.7
To speak badly about someone or something to show little respect
27
3.9
Treat something as unimportant and ignore it
18
7.7
To say no to someone or their offer in a quick rude way
15
6.4
To treat a person or thing as not worthy of respect
13
4.5
Ignore a person or thing because you think they are not important
5
9.5
To treat an idea or opinion as unimportant and not worth taking seriously
4
5.3
Treat a question or problem as not important
3
4.7
To ignore an opinion or worry as unimportant
2
7.4
To say bad things about someone or something and call it useless
2
5.9
Treat something as unimportant and ignore it
2
4.1
To treat criticism or an insult as not important
2
7.5
To reject someone quickly and rudely
1
6.5
Make a person or thing seem less important and less valuable
Antonyms
How Dismissive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'dismiss' (to reject or treat as unworthy) combined with the preposition 'as' (marking a role or characterization) yields a directly compositional meaning: to regard or treat someone/thing in the specified way. This V + as construction is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and follows normal English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will typically be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Dismiss as comes from the image of sending something away and giving it a quick name: to dismiss is to send away, and using as is like calling it 'nonsense'. So dismiss as means to reject or treat someone or something as unimportant, often 'without thinking'.