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Defenition of the word passing

    • Defenition of the word passing

      • Lasting or existing for a short time only.
      • hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
      • enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
      • to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective"
      • a football play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long"
      • a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
      • moving by or going past; "the passing cars"
      • allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"
      • euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
      • going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me"
      • (football) of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play"
      • success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
      • the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
      • (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long"
      • the end of something; "the passing of winter"
      • enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth''s transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
      • success in satisfying a test or requirement
      • going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
      • (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
      • a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
      • the end of something
      • the motion of one object relative to another
      • euphemistic expressions for death
      • hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
      • of advancing the ball by throwing it
      • lasting a very short time
      • allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
      • to an extreme degree

    Synonyms for the word passing

      • casual
      • cursory
      • death
      • demise
      • departing
      • departure
      • desertion
      • disappearance
      • dying
      • end
      • ephemeral
      • exceedingly
      • exit
      • expiration
      • extremely
      • fleeting
      • fly-by-night
      • fugacious
      • going
      • leave-taking
      • leaving
      • loss
      • momentary
      • overtaking
      • pass
      • passage
      • passing away
      • passing game
      • passing play
      • perfunctory
      • qualifying
      • quick
      • release
      • short-lived
      • slapdash
      • superficial
      • surface
      • temporary
      • transient
      • transitory

    Similar words in the passing

      • careless
      • impermanent
      • moving
      • passing
      • satisfactory
      • temporary

    Hyponyms for the word passing

      • aerial
      • forward pass
      • lateral
      • lateral pass
      • spot pass

    Hypernyms for the word passing

      • approbation
      • death
      • decease
      • end
      • expiry
      • final stage
      • football play
      • last
      • motion
      • movement
      • reaction
      • reordering
      • response
      • success

    Antonyms for the word passing

      • failing
      • running

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