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[ pas-ing, pah-sing ] / ˈpæs ɪŋ, ˈpɑ sɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR passing ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivegoing by or past; elapsing: He was feeling better with each passing day. brief, fleeting, or fortuitous; transitory: to take a passing fancy to something. done, given, etc., in passing; cursory: a passing mention. surpassing, preeminent, or extreme. indicating satisfactory performance in a course, on a paper, in a test, etc.: a passing grade on a test. adverbsurpassingly; exceedingly; very. nounthe act of a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass. a means or place of passage. Idioms for passingin passing, by the way; incidentally: The speaker mentioned his latest book in passing.
Origin of passingMiddle English word dating back to 1275–1325; see origin at pass, -ing2, -ing1 OTHER WORDS FROM passingpass·ing·ly, adverbpass·ing·ness, nounun·pass·ing, adjectiveWords nearby passingpass-fail, pass for, passible, passifloraceous, passim, passing, passing bell, passing lane, passing note, passing shot, passion Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for passingA passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer. Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi. Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST While Drake is redefining realness, Iggy is effectively “passing.” The Cultural Crimes of Iggy Azalea|Amy Zimmerman|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Lawmaking by legislatures is also a one-way ratchet—Legislators get credit for passing laws, not pruning them. Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was a Republican Congress working with a Democratic president that succeeded in passing the welfare reform bill the first time. To GOP Congress, as Usual, It’s Welfare on the Chopping Block|Monica Potts|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST Soon after passing beneath the lamp mademoiselle vanished into a doorway. The Albert Gate Mystery|Louis Tracy Passing through the silent village they reached a long building which Gomez said was the Romanez hacienda. The Coast of Adventure|Harold Bindloss Great numbers of people are passing to and fro, an excess of the feminine element being generally observable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867|Various A girl who was passing the house called out to me in a very disagreeable voice. Girls New and Old|L. T. Meade A few days before, Si, while passing near the hospital, saw a weak convalescent faint and fall. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6)|John McElroy
British Dictionary definitions for passing
adjectivetransitory or momentarya passing fancy cursory or casual in action or mannera passing reference adverb, adjectivearchaic to an extreme degreethe events were passing strange nouna place where or means by which one may pass, cross, ford, etc a euphemism for death in passing by the way; incidentallyhe mentioned your visit in passing Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to passingcursory, superficial, fleeting, demise, short, temporary, slight, shallow, ephemeral, fugitive, transient, quick, glancing, decease, finish, end, loss, dissolution, sleep, termination |