brush off

Questions about brush off

What does brush off mean?

brush off means "bar from attention or consideration".

What is another word for brush off?

Close synonyms include dismiss, disregard, brush aside, 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 off a common word?

brush off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.