passing

/pæsɪŋ/ adjectivenounadverb
7 letters2 syllables10 points in Scrabble®13 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS12
ADJECTIVE
1

Lasting a very short time.

“a passing fancy”

2

Allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily.

“a passing grade”

3

Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough.

“a passing glance”

4

Of advancing the ball by throwing it.

“a team with a good passing attack”

NOUN
1

(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”

2

The end of something.

“the passing of winter”

3

A bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another.

“the passing of flatus”

4

Success in satisfying a test or requirement.

“his future depended on his passing that test”

5

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”

6

Euphemistic expressions for death.

“thousands mourned his passing”

7

The motion of one object relative to another.

“stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets”

ADVERB
1

To an extraordinary degree.

“she was a surpassingly beautiful woman”

“I will mention only one particular aspect of the current mess because ... this one is surely something new and passing strange”

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