brush off
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
bar from attention or consideration
She dismissed his advances
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- brush-off derivation
- disregard derivation
- disregard derivation
- dismissive derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | brush-off |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disregard |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disregard |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dismissive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | reject |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | slight |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | discredit |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shrug off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pass off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | flout |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | turn a blind eye |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | laugh off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | disoblige |