Dismisser
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who dismisses.
"For years after Yeltsin crashed onto the political scene, the Gorbachev-infatuated West was overwhelmingly dismissive. Mr. Colton, a professor of government and director of Russian studies at Harvard and the author of a grand history of the city of Moscow, cops to being one of those early dismissers."
Example
More examples"For years after Yeltsin crashed onto the political scene, the Gorbachev-infatuated West was overwhelmingly dismissive. Mr. Colton, a professor of government and director of Russian studies at Harvard and the author of a grand history of the city of Moscow, cops to being one of those early dismissers."
Etymology
From dismiss + -er.
More for "dismisser"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.