brush aside

Questions about brush aside

What does brush aside mean?

brush aside means "bar from attention or consideration".

What is another word for brush aside?

Close synonyms include dismiss, disregard, brush off, discount, push aside. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brush aside a common word?

brush aside is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.