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passingadjective lasting only for a short timehis parents were willing to buy him a piano if he demonstrated that his interest in music was more than a passing fancy brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory little, short, shortishacting, interim, provisional, short-term ceaseless, dateless, deathless, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, lasting, long-lived, permanent, perpetual, timeless, undying, unending lifelongcontinuing, durable, persistentimperishable, indefectible, indestructible passingadverbto a great degreea passing strange turn of events achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly(also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous(chiefly dialect), mortally, most, much, particularly, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly absolutely, altogether, completely, downright, entirely, flat-out, fully, positively, purely, radically, thoroughly, totally, utterly, whollydeeply, profoundlyexceptionally, notably, remarkablyconsiderably, extensively, significantly, substantiallyappreciably, discernibly, markedly, noticeably, obviously, palpably, plainly, visiblyabundantly, plentifullyastronomically, grandly, monstrously, monumentallyexcessively, obscenely, overmuchamazingly, astonishingly, staggeringly a lot, as all get-out, good and little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat meagerly, scantilybarely, hardly, just, marginally, minimally, scarcely passingnounthe permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activitiesthe precise moment of his passing was recorded by the machines at his bedside curtains, death, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, quietus, sleep casualty, fatalitymartyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicideannihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruinassassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter birth, nativity existence, lifecreation, genesis, origination, rise passingverbpresent participle of passto shift possession of (something) from one person to anothercould you please pass me the phone? bucking, handing, handing over, reaching, transferring relayingbearing, carryingfingering, handling, pawingceding, delivering, giving, giving up, releasing, relinquishing, rendering, surrendering, turning over, yielding to come to an endeventually, the storm passed breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, dead-ending, determining, discontinuing, dying, elapsing, ending, expiring, finishing, going, halting, lapsing, leaving off, letting up, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up, winking (out) desisting (from), laying off (of), refraining (from)giving over(British), knocking off, packing (up or in)breaking down, conking (out), cutting out, stallingpausing, staying, suspendingabating, petering (out), winding down biting the dust continuing, hanging on, persisting drawing out, extending, prolonging, protracting to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of anotherpass your forms to the department head once they're filled out commending, committing, confiding, consigning, delegating, delivering, entrusting(also intrusting), giving, giving over, handing, handing over, leaving, recommending, reposing, transferring, transmitting, trusting, turning over, vesting conferring, grantingassigning, dealing (out), dispensing, dispersing, distributing, dividinghanding in, releasing, relinquishing, submitting, surrendering, turning in, yieldingbequeathing, handing down, handing on, willingadvancing, lending, loaningfurnishing, supplyingrecommitting, redelivering, retransferring, retransmitting holding, keeping, retaining detaining, holding back, reserving, withholdingowning, possessingaccepting, receiving, taking inoccupying, taking, taking over to put into effect through legislative or authoritative actionCongress cannot pass any law restricting free speech constituting, enacting, laying down, legislating, making, ordaining reenacting, repassingbringing about, effectingallowing, authorizing, permitting, sanctioningdecreeing, dictating, proclaimingadministering, executingapproving, confirming, ratifying repealing, rescinding, revoking abolishing, abrogating, annulling, canceling(or cancelling), invalidating, killing, nullifyingoverturning, reversing, voiding to take placeand the destruction of the town came to pass, just as the seer had predicted befalling, being, betiding, chancing, coming, coming about, coming down, coming off, cooking, doing, going down(slang), going on, happening, happing, occurring, transpiring breaking, developing, rising, shaping (up)arising, coming up, cropping (up), materializing, springing (up)interveningfalling out, following, resulting, turning outgoing off, proceeding coming to pass to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through ita presidential candidate who doesn't yet know how it feels to pass the scrutiny of the national press enduring, experiencing, feeling, having, knowing, seeing, suffering, sustaining, tasting, undergoing, witnessing encountering, meetingaccepting, receivingassimilating, digesting going through to express (a thought or emotion) in wordshe'll occasionally pass some insightful comment, but in general he doesn't have much to contribute articulating, bringing out, enunciating, saying, speaking, stating, talking, telling, uttering, verbalizing, vocalizing airing, discussing, giving, looking, sharing, sounding, ventilating, venting, voicingblabbering, blurting, bolting, getting off, shootingadvertising, announcing, blazing, broadcasting, declaring, posting, proclaiming, promulgating, publicizing, publishingaffirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowingbreathing, chirping, drawling, gasping, lipping, mouthing, murmuring, purring, shouting, spluttering, spouting, whisperingclothing, couching, formulating, formulizing, phrasing, putting, wordingcommenting, piping up (with), remarkingripping (out), snarling putting into words stifling, suppressing to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree towe appreciate the invitation to the party, but we'll have to pass I'll pass on the coffee balking (at), declining, deselecting, disapproving, negativing, nixing, passing up, refusing, rejecting, reprobating, repudiating, spurning, throwing out, throwing over, turning down blowing off, disdaining, rebuffing, scorning, scouting, shooting downoverruling, vetoingforbidding, prohibiting, proscribingdismissing, ignoringabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from)denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disputing, gainsayingstickingabjuring, forswearing(also foreswearing), recanting, renouncing, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawingavoiding, bypassing, detouringcontradicting, denying, disowning, negatingcontroverting, disagreeing (with), disproving, disputing, rebutting, refutingbacking down, backing off, backtrackingdisallowing, recalling, reneging, revoking turning one's back on accepting, agreeing (to), approving condoning, countenancing, swallowing, toleratingadopting, embracing, receiving, taking, welcomingacceding, acquiescing, agreeing, assenting, consentingchoosing, handpicking, selectingespousing, supporting to withstand scrutiny and gain acceptance or approvalthe finished product isn't perfect, but it will pass flying, holding up, standing up, washing getting through, going down, going over, going through, playing, taking, working holding water, passing muster in the 14th century |