WRITE OFF Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

write off

verb

as in to dismiss

to express scornfully one's low opinion of most critics have already written off that director as a hack incapable of turning out anything but schlock

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as in to reduce

to diminish the price or value of that one blunder will write off to nothing all the goodwill we've been building up

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Recent Examples of write off As financial aid becomes more expansive, families should not write off a top school for financial reasons before fully understanding the aid offerings available to them. —

Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026 Lam said that, just as California's Three Strikes law has changed, so has the idea that people should be locked up and written off. —

John Ramos, CBS News, 18 May 2026 Mood changes can be written off as stress. —

Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026 The audience that’s been written off as fragmented when really it’s just been ignored. —

Daren Smith, IndieWire, 13 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for write off

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The court recommended that the petition be dismissed, and that the organizations be given one month to submit the employee lists.

— Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
Even the foundations of today’s artificial intelligence boom were laid by the NSF in the 1980s and 1990s, when neural networks were a backwater dismissed by mainstream computer science.

— Gautam Mukunda, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026