passing

(r) to an extreme degree
- extremely cold
- extremely unpleasant
exceedingly, super, extremely,
(s) lasting a very short time
- the ephemeral joys of childhood
- a passing fancy
- youth's transient beauty
- love is transitory but it is eternal
- fugacious blossoms
ephemeral, fugacious, short-lived, transitory, transient,
(a) of advancing the ball by throwing it
- a team with a good passing attack
- a pass play
pass,
(s) allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
- a passing grade
(s) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
- a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws
- a passing glance
- perfunctory courtesy
cursory, perfunctory, casual,

(n) (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
passing game, passing play, pass,
(n) euphemistic expressions for death
- thousands mourned his passing
exit, expiration, going, departure, release, loss,
(n) the motion of one object relative to another
- stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets
passage,
(n) the end of something
- the passing of winter
(n) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the passage of air from the lungs
- the passing of flatus
passage,
(n) 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
overtaking,
(n) success in satisfying a test or requirement
- his future depended on his passing that test
- he got a pass in introductory chemistry
qualifying, pass,

passing game passing play pass exceedingly super extremely ephemeral fugacious short-lived transitory transient exit expiration going departure release loss passage cursory perfunctory casual overtaking qualifying

running flunk failing

passim

passion passive

passing comment passing game passing note passing play passing shot passing tone passing water