pass

The word “pass” has 1 syllable: pass

It's pronounced as /pæs/


What is synonym and antonym for pass?

In the thesaurus, “pass” has 587 synonyms and 119 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for pass along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for pass

  • abate
  • abjure
  • abyss
  • accept
  • accomplishment
  • achievement
  • actuality
  • actualization
  • administer
  • admission
  • adopt
  • advance
  • advertise
  • affirm
  • air
  • allege
  • alley
  • alleyway
  • allow
  • announce
  • answer
  • approach
  • approve
  • arise
  • arroyo
  • arterial
  • artery
  • articulate
  • assay
  • assert
  • assign
  • assimilate
  • attainment
  • attempt
  • authorize
  • autobahn
  • autoroute
  • autostrada
  • avenue
  • aver
  • avoid
  • avouch
  • avow
  • back down
  • back off
  • backstreet
  • backtrack
  • barranca
  • barranco
  • bash
  • basin
  • be
  • be established
  • be ordained
  • be sanctioned
  • bear
  • become law
  • become ratified
  • become valid
  • befall
  • beltway
  • bequeath
  • betide
  • bid
  • bite the dust
  • blabber
  • blaze
  • blow off
  • blow over
  • blow past
  • blurt
  • bolt
  • boulevard
  • branch
  • break
  • break down
  • break off
  • break up
  • breathe
  • bring about
  • bring out
  • broadcast
  • buck
  • bypass
  • bystreet
  • byway
  • canyon
  • carriageway
  • carry
  • cash in
  • catch
  • causeway
  • cease
  • cede
  • certificate
  • chance
  • chasm
  • check
  • chirp
  • chit
  • circle
  • cirque
  • claim
  • cleft
  • close
  • clothe
  • col
  • combe
  • come
  • come about
  • come down
  • come off
  • come to pass
  • come up
  • commend
  • comment
  • commit
  • comp
  • conclude
  • condition
  • confer
  • confide
  • confirm
  • consign
  • constitute
  • consummation
  • contingency
  • contradict
  • controvert
  • convey
  • cook
  • coomb
  • coombe
  • corniche
  • corridor
  • couch
  • coulee
  • couloir
  • coupon
  • crack
  • crawl
  • crevasse
  • crevice
  • crisis
  • cross
  • crossroad
  • crossroads
  • cruise
  • cul-de-sac
  • cut
  • cut out
  • cwm
  • dale
  • dead end
  • dead-end
  • decease
  • declare
  • decline
  • decree
  • defecate
  • defile
  • delegate
  • deliver
  • dell
  • demise
  • deny
  • depart
  • deselect
  • determine
  • detour
  • develop
  • dictate
  • die
  • digest
  • disallow
  • disappear
  • disapprove
  • disavow
  • discharge
  • disclaim
  • discontinue
  • discount
  • discuss
  • disdain
  • dismiss
  • disown
  • dispense
  • disperse
  • disprove
  • dispute
  • disregard
  • dissolve
  • distribute
  • divide
  • do
  • drag
  • draw
  • drawl
  • drive
  • drop
  • dual carriageway
  • dwindle
  • ebb
  • effect
  • elapse
  • eliminate
  • emergency
  • emit
  • empty
  • enact
  • encounter
  • end
  • endeavor
  • endure
  • engage
  • entrust
  • enunciate
  • essay
  • establish
  • evacuate
  • evaporate
  • exceed
  • excel
  • exchange
  • excrete
  • execute
  • exigency
  • expel
  • experience
  • expire
  • expressway
  • exude
  • fade
  • fail
  • fall out
  • fare
  • feel
  • finger
  • finish
  • fissure
  • fling
  • floodplain
  • flow
  • flume
  • fly
  • fly by
  • follow
  • forbear
  • forbid
  • foreswear
  • forget
  • formulate
  • formulize
  • forswear
  • free ride
  • freeway
  • fruition
  • fulfillment
  • fulfilment
  • furlough
  • furnish
  • gainsay
  • gap
  • gasp
  • get ahead
  • get off
  • get through
  • gill
  • give
  • give off
  • give over
  • give up
  • glen
  • glide
  • glide by
  • go
  • go beyond
  • go by
  • go down
  • go off
  • go on
  • go over
  • go past
  • go through
  • gorge
  • grant
  • gulch
  • gulf
  • gulley
  • gully
  • gutter
  • halt
  • hand
  • hand down
  • hand in
  • hand on
  • hand over
  • handle
  • hap
  • happen
  • have
  • hie
  • high road
  • high street
  • highway
  • hold up
  • hold water
  • hollow
  • identification
  • ignore
  • interstate
  • intervene
  • intrust
  • journey
  • juncture
  • kettle
  • kick
  • kloof
  • knock off
  • know
  • lane
  • laneway
  • lapse
  • lay down
  • leave
  • leave behind
  • leave off
  • legislate
  • lend
  • let have
  • let up
  • license
  • linger
  • linn
  • lip
  • loan
  • look
  • main street
  • make
  • materialize
  • matriculate
  • meet
  • melt away
  • mews
  • miss
  • motorway
  • mouth
  • move
  • murmur
  • negate
  • negative
  • neglect
  • nix
  • not heed
  • notch
  • note
  • nullah
  • occur
  • offer
  • omit
  • ordain
  • order
  • outdistance
  • outdo
  • outgo
  • outrace
  • outshine
  • outstrip
  • overlook
  • overrule
  • overture
  • paper
  • parkway
  • pass away
  • pass by
  • pass muster
  • pass on
  • pass up
  • passage
  • passageway
  • passport
  • pasteboard
  • path
  • pause
  • paw
  • perish
  • permit
  • peter out
  • phrase
  • pike
  • pinch
  • place
  • play
  • pledge
  • plight
  • post
  • proceed
  • proclaim
  • progress
  • prohibit
  • promise
  • promulgate
  • pronounce
  • proscribe
  • publicize
  • publish
  • purr
  • push on
  • put
  • put into words
  • qualify
  • quit
  • ratify
  • ravine
  • reach
  • realization
  • rebuff
  • rebut
  • recall
  • recant
  • receive
  • recommend
  • recommit
  • redeliver
  • reenact
  • refuse
  • refute
  • reject
  • relay
  • release
  • relinquish
  • remark
  • render
  • renege
  • renounce
  • repair
  • repass
  • repose
  • reprobate
  • repudiate
  • result
  • retract
  • retransfer
  • retransmit
  • revoke
  • ring road
  • rise
  • road
  • roadway
  • roll
  • route
  • row
  • run
  • run by
  • run out
  • saddle
  • safe-conduct
  • sanction
  • say
  • scorn
  • scout
  • secondary road
  • see
  • send
  • send forth
  • share
  • shoot
  • shoot ahead of
  • shoot down
  • shot
  • shout
  • shunpike
  • shut-in
  • side road
  • side street
  • situation
  • skip
  • slight
  • slip away
  • snarl
  • sound
  • speak
  • splutter
  • spout
  • spurn
  • stab
  • stage
  • stall
  • stand up
  • state
  • stay
  • stick
  • stop
  • strait
  • street
  • striving
  • struggle
  • submit
  • success
  • succumb
  • suffer
  • suffice
  • suggestion
  • suit
  • superhighway
  • supply
  • surmount
  • surrender
  • suspend
  • sustain
  • switchback
  • take
  • take back
  • take place
  • talk
  • taste
  • tell
  • terminate
  • thoroughfare
  • throes
  • through street
  • throw
  • throw out
  • throw over
  • thruway
  • ticket
  • token
  • top
  • trace
  • track
  • trail
  • transcend
  • transfer
  • transmit
  • transpire
  • travel
  • trench
  • trial
  • trial and error
  • triumph
  • trough
  • trust
  • try
  • turn down
  • turn in
  • turn out
  • turn over
  • turning point
  • turnpike
  • undergo
  • undertake
  • undertaking
  • unsay
  • utter
  • vale
  • validate
  • valley
  • vanish
  • vent
  • ventilate
  • verbalize
  • vest
  • veto
  • visa
  • vocalize
  • voice
  • void
  • vote in
  • voucher
  • wadi
  • wane
  • warrant
  • wash
  • way
  • wend
  • whack
  • whirl
  • whisper
  • will
  • wind down
  • wind up
  • withdraw
  • witness
  • word
  • work
  • yield
  • zero hour

Antonyms for pass

  • abolish
  • abrogate
  • accede
  • accept
  • acquiesce
  • adopt
  • advantage
  • agree
  • annul
  • appear
  • approve
  • arrive
  • assent
  • attend
  • be born
  • be inferior
  • be willing
  • bear
  • begin
  • blessing
  • break
  • calm
  • cancel
  • cease
  • choose
  • come
  • commence
  • conceal
  • condone
  • consent
  • continue
  • countenance
  • create
  • defeat
  • denial
  • deny
  • detain
  • disagree
  • disallow
  • draw out
  • embrace
  • espouse
  • extend
  • fail
  • failure
  • fall behind
  • fill
  • fizzle
  • get
  • good fortune
  • grow
  • halt
  • handpick
  • hang on
  • heed
  • hide
  • hold
  • hold back
  • increase
  • invalidate
  • keep
  • kill
  • live
  • look at
  • lose
  • naught
  • nonfulfillment
  • nonsuccess
  • note
  • notice
  • nought
  • nullify
  • occupy
  • overturn
  • own
  • pay attention
  • persist
  • possess
  • prohibition
  • prolong
  • protract
  • question
  • receive
  • recognize
  • refusal
  • refuse
  • regard
  • reject
  • remain
  • remember
  • renounce
  • repeal
  • repudiate
  • rescind
  • reserve
  • respect
  • retain
  • reverse
  • revoke
  • rise
  • rush
  • select
  • start
  • stay
  • stifle
  • stop
  • succeed
  • support
  • suppress
  • swallow
  • take
  • take in
  • take over
  • tolerate
  • veto
  • void
  • wait
  • welcome
  • withhold

Meanings of pass

  • verb
    1. To change place.
    2. To change in state or status.
    3. To move through time.
    4. To be accepted.
    5. In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
    6. To do or be better.
    7. To take heed.
  • noun
    1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
    2. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
    3. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.
    4. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
    5. An attempt.
    6. Success in an examination or similar test.
    7. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
    8. A thrust; a sally of wit.
    9. A sexual advance.
    10. The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
    11. A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
    12. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
    13. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission.
    14. An intentional walk.
    15. The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
    16. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
    17. Estimation; character.
    18. (Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
    19. The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
    20. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
    21. A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
    22. A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

Example Sentences

  • She managed to pass the final exam with flying colors.
  • Please pass the salt during dinner.
  • The runners had to pass through several checkpoints.
  • He will pass by your house on his way to work.
  • They decided to pass on the opportunity to invest.

On this page you'll find 706 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pass, such as: abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, abyss, accede, accept.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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