passing muster

The phrase “passing muster” has 4 syllables: pass-ing mus-ter

It's pronounced as /ˈpæsɪŋ ˈmʌstɚ/


What is synonym and antonym for passing muster?

In the thesaurus, “passing muster” has 13 synonyms.

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


Synonyms for passing muster

  • flying
  • getting through
  • going down
  • going over
  • going through
  • holding up
  • holding water
  • passing
  • playing
  • standing up
  • taking
  • washing
  • working

Example Sentences

  • His presentation was passing muster with the senior management.
  • The new product is finally passing muster after several improvements.
  • The candidate’s qualifications are passing muster for the job.
  • The project proposal isn’t passing muster and needs more work.
  • Only those passing muster will move on to the next round.

On this page you'll find 13 synonyms or another words to passing muster, such as: flying, getting through, going down, going over, going through, holding up, holding water.

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

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  • ablution
  • ablutionary
  • abstersion
  • agitating
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  • bath
  • bathing
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  • bubbling
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  • flying
  • fomentation
  • getting through
  • going down
  • going over
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  • guggling
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  • holding up
  • holding water
  • hosing
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  • jetting
  • lapping
  • laundering
  • laundry
  • lavabo
  • lavage
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  • laving
  • lipping
  • maundy
  • misting
  • moistening
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  • overflowing
  • paddling
  • passing
  • passing muster
  • plashing
  • playing
  • purling
  • reeling
  • rehydrating
  • rewashing
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  • rinsing
  • rippling
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  • spewing
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  • spouting
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  • standing up
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  • taking
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  • wash
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  • water-soaking
  • watering
  • waterlogging
  • wetting
  • wetting down
  • wheeling
  • whipping
  • whirling
  • whishing
  • whisking
  • working

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

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