dismal | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
---|
dismally | (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dreadfully |
---|
(adverb) in a cheerless manner | Synonyms: drearily |
dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
---|
(verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
(verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
dismantled | (adjective) torn down and broken up | Synonyms: demolished, razed |
---|
dismantlement | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantling |
---|
dismantling | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantlement |
---|
dismay | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, consternation |
---|
(noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, disheartenment |
(verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, horrify |
(verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dispirit, get down |
dismayed | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, appalled, shocked |
---|
dismaying | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: appalling |
---|
dismember | (verb) separate the limbs from the body | - |
---|
(verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: discerp, take apart |
dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
---|
dismiss | (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dissolve |
---|
(verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside |
(verb) end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave | Synonyms: usher out |
(verb) cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration | Synonyms: throw out |
(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
(verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: drop, send away, send packing |
dismissal | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
---|
(noun) a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial | Synonyms: judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal |
(noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismission, pink slip |
(noun) permission to go; the sending away of someone | - |
dismissed | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: discharged, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
---|
dismissible | (adjective) subject to dismissal | - |
---|
dismission | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
---|
(noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismissal, pink slip |
dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
---|
(adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
dismount | (noun) the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.) | - |
---|
(verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse |