passing

The word “passing” has 2 syllables: pass-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈpæsɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for passing?

In the thesaurus, “passing” has 483 synonyms and 111 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for passing

a lot
abating
abjuring
absolutely
abundantly
accepting
achingly
acting
administering
advancing
advertising
affirming
airing
alleging
allowing
almighty
altogether
amazingly
annihilation
announcing
appreciably
approving
archly
arising
articulating
as all get-out
assassination
asserting
assigning
assimilating
astonishingly
astronomically
authorizing
averring
avoiding
avouching
avowing
awful
awfully
backing down
backing off
backtracking
badly
bearing
beastly
befalling
being
bequeathing
betiding
biting the dust
blabbering
blazing
blisteringly
blowing off
blurting
bolting
bone
breaking
breaking down
breaking off
breaking up
breathing
brief
bringing about
bringing out
broadcasting
bucking
bypassing
carrying
casualty
ceasing
ceding
chancing
chirping
closing
clothing
colossally
coming
coming about
coming down
coming off
coming to pass
coming up
commending
commenting
committing
completely
concluding
conferring
confiding
confirming
considerably
consigning
constituting
contradicting
controverting
cooking
corking
couching
cracking
cursory
curtains
cutting out
damn
damned
dang
dead-ending
deadly
death
decease
deciduous
declaring
declining
decreeing
deeply
defunction
delegating
delivering
demise
denying
deselecting
desperately
destruction
determining
detouring
developing
dictating
digesting
disallowing
disapproving
disavowing
discernibly
disclaiming
discontinuing
discussing
disdaining
dismissing
disowning
dispensing
dispersing
disproving
disputing
dissolution
distributing
dividing
doing
doom
downright
drawling
dying
effecting
elapsing
eminently
enacting
encountering
end
ending
enduring
enormously
entirely
entrusting
enunciating
ephemeral
especially
evanescent
ever
exceeding
exceedingly
exceptionally
excessively
executing
execution
exit
experiencing
expiration
expiring
expiry
extensively
extermination
extra
extremely
fabulously
falling out
fantastically
far
fatality
fate
feeling
fiercely
filthy
fingering
finish
finishing
flash
flat-out
fleeting
flying
following
forbearing
forbidding
foreswearing
formulating
formulizing
forswearing
frightfully
fugacious
fugitive
full
fully
furnishing
gainsaying
gasping
getting off
getting through
giving
giving over
giving up
glancing
going
going down
going off
going on
going over
going through
good and
grandly
granting
grave
great divide
greatly
halting
handing
handing down
handing in
handing on
handing over
handling
happening
happing
hasty
having
heavily
highly
holding up
holding water
hugely
ignoring
immensely
impermanent
incredibly
intensely
interim
intervening
intrusting
jolly
killing
knocking off
knowing
lapsing
laying down
leaving
leaving off
legislating
lending
letting up
lipping
little
loaning
looking
loss
majorly
making
markedly
martyrdom
massacre
materializing
meeting
mightily
mighty
momentary
monstrous
monstrously
monumentally
mortally
most
mouthing
much
murmuring
negating
negativing
nixing
notably
noticeably
obscenely
obviously
occurring
ordaining
overmuch
overruling
palpably
particularly
passage
passing muster
passing up
pausing
pawing
permitting
phrasing
plainly
playing
plentifully
positively
posting
proceeding
proclaiming
profoundly
prohibiting
promulgating
proscribing
provisional
publicizing
publishing
purely
purring
putting
putting into words
quick
quietus
quitting
radically
ratifying
rattling
reaching
real
really
rebuffing
rebutting
recalling
recanting
receiving
recommending
recommitting
redelivering
reenacting
refusing
refuting
rejecting
relaying
releasing
relinquishing
remarkably
remarking
rendering
reneging
renouncing
repassing
reposing
reprobating
repudiating
resulting
retracting
retransferring
retransmitting
revoking
right
rising
roaring
roaringly
ruin
sanctioning
saying
scorning
scouting
seeing
self-destruction
self-murder
self-slaughter
seriously
severely
shallow
sharing
shooting
shooting down
short
short-lived
short-term
shortish
shouting
significantly
silence
slaughter
sleep
slight
snarling
so
sore
sorely
sounding
spanking
speaking
specially
spluttering
spouting
spurning
staggeringly
stalling
standing up
stating
staying
sticking
stinking
stopping
submitting
substantially
such
suffering
suicide
super
superficial
supplying
supremely
surpassingly
surrendering
suspending
sustaining
taking
taking back
talking
tasting
telling
temporary
terminating
termination
terribly
that
thoroughly
throwing out
throwing over
thumping
too
totally
transferring
transient
transitory
transmitting
transpiring
trusting
turning down
turning in
turning out
turning over
unco
uncommonly
undergoing
unsaying
uttering
utterly
vastly
ventilating
venting
verbalizing
very
vesting
vetoing
visibly
vitally
vocalizing
voicing
washing
way
whacking
whispering
wholly
wicked
wildly
willing
winding down
winding up
withdrawing
witnessing
wording
working
yielding

Antonyms for passing

abolishing
abrogating
acceding
accepting
acquiescing
adopting
agreeing
annulling
approving
assenting
barely
beginning
birth
canceling
cancelling
ceaseless
choosing
commencement
condoning
consenting
construction
continuing
countenancing
creation
dateless
deathless
detaining
drawing out
durable
embracing
endless
enduring
espousing
eternal
everlasting
existence
extending
genesis
handpicking
hanging on
hardly
holding
holding back
immortal
imperishable
indefectible
indestructible
initiation
invalidating
just
keeping
killing
large
lasting
life
lifelong
little
living
long
long-lasting
long-lived
marginally
meagerly
minimally
nativity
negligibly
nominally
nullifying
occupying
opening
origination
overturning
owning
permanent
perpetual
persistent
persisting
possessing
prolonging
protracting
receiving
repealing
rescinding
reserving
retaining
reversing
revoking
rise
scantily
scarcely
selecting
slightly
somewhat
start
stifling
supporting
suppressing
swallowing
taking
taking in
taking over
tall
thick
thorough
timeless
tolerating
undying
unending
voiding
welcoming
withholding

Meanings of passing

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. Death, dying; the end of something.
2. The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
3. The act of approving a bill etc.
4. The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
5. A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
6. The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
adjective
1. That passes away; ephemeral.
2. Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme.
3. Vague, cursory.
4. Going past.
adverb
1. Surpassingly, greatly.

Example Sentences

Her passing glance caught something unusual in the mirror.
The team's passing improved significantly after practice.
We were all saddened by the passing of our dear neighbor.
He made a passing comment about the weather before leaving.
The car received a passing grade during the safety inspection.

On this page you'll find 594 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to passing, such as: a lot, abating, abjuring, abolishing, abrogating, absolutely, abundantly.

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