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Nouns (13)

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"

passage

n. a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"

pass, qualifying

n. success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"

pass, passing game, passing play

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"

going, departure, exit, loss, release, expiration

n. euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"

Verbs (0)

Adverbs (3)

extremely, exceedingly, amain

adv. to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective"

Adjectives (9)

passing

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

passing

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

casual, perfunctory, superficial

adj. 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"

transient, ephemeral, short-lived, transitory

adj. lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

Fuzzynyms (55)

passing, transient, ephemeral, short-lived, transitory

adj. lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

fugitive, fleeting, momentaneous, momentary

adj. lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

mortal

adj. subject to death; "mortal beings"

migrant, migratory

adj. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers"

quick, superficial, cursory

adj. hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"

facile

adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

chance, haphazard

adj. dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"

hasty

adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

indifferent

adj. showing no care or concern in attitude or action; "indifferent to the sufferings of others"; "indifferent to her plea"

casual, insouciant, nonchalant

adj. marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner"

fugitive, fleeting, momentaneous, momentary

adj. lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

passing

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

migrant, migratory

adj. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers"

brief, little

adj. of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away"

deadly, full, deuced, rattling, extremely, madly, insanely, deucedly, devilishly

adv. "She was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "full well"; "a rattling good story"

excessively, overly, too, to an excessive degree

adv. to an excessive degree; "too big"

notably

adv. to a notable extent; "notably in the social sciences, the professors teach too much"

vastly, grossly

adv. to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator"

exceptionally

adv. to an exceptional degree; "it worked exceptionally well"

inordinately, extraordinarily

adv. extremely; "she was inordinately smart"; "it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate"

greatly, extremely, drastically, highly

adv. in a drastic manner

Synonyms (101)

active, on the move

adj. being in physical motion: "active fish in the aquarium"; "a nurse is on the move all day"

walking, afoot, on foot

adj. traveling by foot; "she was afoot when I saw her this morning"

agitated, tossing

adj. thrown from side to side; "a tossing ship"

approaching, oncoming

adj. moving toward one

self-propelled, self-propelling, automotive

adj. containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement; "a self-propelled vehicle"

riding, awheel

adj. traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g.; "the riding public welcomed the new buses"

circling

adj. moving in a circle

circulating

adj. moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point: "steam circulating through the pipes"; "the circulating thyroid hormones"

crawling, creeping

adj. moving or progressing very slowly or laboriously esp by or as if by dragging the body along close to the ground: "huge crawling reptiles"; "a creeping tractor"

flowing, streaming

adj. moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the concert hall"

pouring, flowing, gushing

adj. moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the concert hall"

fluttering, flittering

adj. moving rapidly to and fro (as wings): "fluttering birds"; "the flittering wings of a fledgling"

jetting, spouting, spurting, squirting

adj. propelled violently in a usually narrow stream

road, traveling, travelling, touring, itinerant, peripatetic

adj. working for a short time in different places; "itinerant laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring company"

kinetic

adj. characterized by motion; "modern dance has been called kinetic pantomime"

marching

adj. "marching orders"

shuffling, milling

adj. moving about or around: "the milling crowd"

mobile, movable

adj. having transportation available

wheeling, turning, revolving, rotating

adj. turning about an axis

rushing

adj. moving or as if moving with extreme rapidity: "the typical mountain stream is a rushing torrent"; "the rushing yellow of the developing day"

shifting

adj. continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors"

whirling, spinning

adj. moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting motion; "a tornado's whirling winds"; "swirling currents"

twisting, squirming, wiggling, wriggling, writhing, vermiculate

adj. having a twisting or snake-like or wormlike motion; "squirming boys"; "wiggly worms"; "writhing snakes"

waving, streaming

adj. "banners waving in the breeze"

sweeping

adj. taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide-sweeping view of the river"

underway, under way

adj. currently in progress; "there is mischief afoot"; "plans are afoot"; "preparations for the trial are underway"

unreeling, unwinding

adj. unwinding from or as if from a reel; "recorded on the unreeling film inside her"; "a long unwinding silk cocoon"

whirling, swirling

adj. moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting motion; "a tornado's whirling winds"; "swirling currents"

acceptable

adj. worthy of acceptance or satisfactory; "acceptable levels of radiation"; "performances varied from acceptable to excellent"

fair, adequate, passable, fair to middling

adj. about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"

okay, ok, all-right, O.K., all right

adj. being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine"

alright

adj. nonstandard usage

satisfying, cheering, comforting

adj. providing freedom from worry

copacetic, copasetic, copesetic, copesettic

adj. completely satisfactory; "his smile said that everything was copacetic"; "You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic"- John O'Hara

right

adj. in or into a satisfactory condition; "things are right again now"; "put things right"

unstudied, effortless

adj. "careless grace"

haphazard, hit-or-miss, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy

adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

acting, interim

adj. performing services temporarily

episodic

adj. limited in duration to a single episode; "an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers"

fly-by-night

adj. ephemeral; "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"

makeshift, improvised, jury-rigged

adj. done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"

temporal

adj. not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt

terminable

adj. capable of being terminated after a designated time; "terminable employees"; "a terminable annuity"

visiting, guest

adj. staying temporarily: "a visiting foreigner"; "guest conductor"

Antonyms (12)

failing

n. failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report"

killing, violent death

n. an event that causes someone to die

permanent, lasting

adj. continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent value"

everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, eternal, unending

adj. continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"

incessant, perpetual

adj. occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or uninterrupted; "a child's incessant questions"; "your perpetual (or continual) complaints"

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