passing

Adjective

• 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
    

• allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
  • a passing grade
    

• of advancing the ball by throwing it
  • a team with a good passing attack
    
  • a pass play
    

• 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
    

Adverb

• to an extreme degree
  • extremely cold
    
  • extremely unpleasant
    

Noun

• success in satisfying a test or requirement
  • his future depended on his passing that test
    
  • he got a pass in introductory chemistry
    

• 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
    

• a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
  • the passage of air from the lungs
    
  • the passing of flatus
    

• the end of something
  • the passing of winter
    

• the motion of one object relative to another
  • stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets
    

• euphemistic expressions for death
  • thousands mourned his passing
    

• (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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  casual , cursory , passing(a) , perfunctory , pass(a) , ephemeral , short-lived , transient , transitory , fugacious , extremely , exceedingly , super , pass , qualifying , overtaking , passage , loss , departure , exit , expiration , going , release , passing play , passing game
• Antonyms: 
  running(a) , failing , flunk