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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dismissed mean? 

• DISMISSED (adjective)
  The adjective DISMISSED has 1 sense:

1. having lost your job

  Familiarity information: DISMISSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISMISSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having lost your job

Synonyms:

discharged; dismissed; fired; laid-off; pink-slipped

Similar:

unemployed (not engaged in a gainful occupation)

 Context examples 

Thus was I bluntly dismissed from the poop, only to find Mugridge sleeping soundly from the morphine I had given him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My aunt dismissed the matter with a heavy sigh, and smoothed her dress.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The day which dismissed the music-master was one of the happiest of Catherine's life.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then he dismissed the thought as unworthy and impossible, and yielded himself more freely to the music.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and all were gone into the refectory to tea.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fanny's last meal in her father's house was in character with her first: she was dismissed from it as hospitably as she had been welcomed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He did trace them easily to Clapham, but no further; for on entering that place, they removed into a hackney coach, and dismissed the chaise that brought them from Epsom.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A 1912 report to the UK Parliament mentioned, but dismissed as a cause, the on-board fire.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

My night was haunted by the thought that somewhere a clue, a strange sentence, a curious observation, had come under my notice and had been too easily dismissed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am sorry to say, ma'am, in a most unhappy rupture:— Edward is dismissed for ever from his mother's notice.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)