| Main Entry: | dismissal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | release |
Synonyms: |
adjournment, banishment, bounce, brush-off, cold shoulder, congé, deportation, deposal, deposition, discharge, dislodgment, displacement, dispossession, dissolution, door*, end, eviction, exile, exorcism, expatriation, expulsion, freedom, freeing, housecleaning, kiss-off, layoff, liberation, marching orders, notice, old heave-ho, ostracism, ouster, permission, pink slip, relegation, removal, suspension |
Antonyms: |
acceptance, appointment, employment, hiring, maintainance, retention, welcome |
| Main Entry: | acquittal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration removing blame |
Synonyms: |
absolution, acquitting, amnesty, clearance, deliverance, discharge, discharging, dismissal, dismissing, exculpation, exemption, exoneration, freeing, letting off, liberation, pardon, release, releasing, relief from, reprieve, vindication |
Antonyms: |
blame, censure, conviction, denunciation, doom, sentence |
| Main Entry: | cold shoulder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | snub |
Synonyms: |
aloofness, brush-off, coldness, dismissal, disregard, iciness |
| Main Entry: | deposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dethroning, ousting |
Synonyms: |
degradation, discharge, dismissal, displacement, ejection, impeachment, overthrow, removal, unfrocking |
| Main Entry: | dissolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death; destruction |
Synonyms: |
adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, defunction, demise, disappearance, disbandment, discontinuation, dismissal, dispersal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, liquefaction, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination |
Antonyms: |
beginning, commencement, construction, start |
| Main Entry: | ejection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion |
Synonyms: |
banishment, disbarment, discharge, dismissal, elimination, eviction, exile, ouster, removal, the boot, the heave-ho, the sack, throwing out |
| Main Entry: | exclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion; forbiddance |
Synonyms: |
ban, bar, blackball, blockade, boycott, coventry, cut, debarment, debarring, discharge, dismissal, ejection, elimination, embargo, eviction, exception, excommunication, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, keeping out, lockout, nonadmission, occlusion, omission, ostracism, ousting, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, proscription, refusal, rejection, relegation, removal, repudiation, segregation, separation, suspension, veto |
Antonyms: |
acceptance, addition, admittance, allowance, inclusion, incorporation, welcome |
| Main Entry: | expulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishing |
Synonyms: |
banishment, boot, bounce, debarment, deportment, discharge, dislodgment, dismissal, displacement, dispossession, driving out, ejection, eviction, exclusion, exile, expatriation, extrusion, forcing out, ostracism, ouster, ousting, proscription, purge, relegation, removal, rush, suspension |
Antonyms: |
import, welcoming |
| Main Entry: | ouster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ejection |
Synonyms: |
banishment, disbarment, discharge, dismissal, eviction, expulsion, loss of right, overthrow, removal, sack, the heave-ho |
| Main Entry: | rejection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | denial, refusal |
Synonyms: |
bounce, brush-off, cold shoulder, disallowance, dismissal, elimination, exclusion, hard time, kick in teeth, nix, no dice, no go, no way, nothing doing, pass*, rebuff, renunciation, repudiation, slap in the face, thumbs down, turndown, veto |
Antonyms: |
acceptance, allowance, approval, choice, ratification, sanction |