Synonyms of the word

passing

• v. present participle of pass.
• adj. That passes away; ephemeral.
• adj. (now rare, literary) Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme.
• adj. vague, cursory.
• adj. going past - passing cars.
• adv. (now literary or archaic) Surpassingly, greatly.
• n. Death, dying; the end of something.
• n. The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
• n. (law) The act of approving a bill etc.
• n. (sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
• n. A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.

careless

• adj. (archaic) Free from care; unworried, without anxiety.
• adj. Not concerned or worried (about).
• adj. Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes.

casual

• adj. Happening by chance.
• adj. Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
• adj. Employed irregularly.
• adj. Careless.
• adj. Happening or coming to pass without design.
• adj. Informal, relaxed.
• adj. Designed for informal or everyday use.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its…
• n. A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
• n. (Britain) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police…
• n. One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
• n. (video games, informal) A player of casual games.
• n. (dated) (Britain) A tramp.

cursory

• adj. hasty; superficial; careless.
• adj. (obsolete) Running about; not stationary.

death

• n. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent…
• n. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
• n. (the death) The collapse or end of something.

decease

• n. (formal) Death, departure from life.
• v. (now rare) To die.

departure

• n. The act of departing or something that has departed.
• n. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
• n. (euphemistic) A death.
• n. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the…
• n. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading,…
• n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

ephemeral

• n. Something which lasts for a short period of time.
• adj. Lasting for a short period of time.
• adj. (biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
• adj. (geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.

exceedingly

• adv. To a vastly great extent or degree.
• adv. To an extreme or unusual degree, extent, etc.; extremely.

exit

• n. A way out.
• n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
• n. The action of leaving.
• n. Death.
• v. To go out.
• v. To leave.
• v. To die.

expiration

• n. The act of expiring.
• n. The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.
• n. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
• n. (euphemistic) The last emission of breath; death.
• n. A cessation, extinction, ending.
• n. That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

expiry

• n. (Britain) end, termination, expiration.
• n. (Britain) death.

extremely

• adv. (degree) To an extreme degree.

fugacious

• adj. Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.

going

• v. present participle of go.
• n. A departure.
• n. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
• n. progress.
• n. (figuratively) Conditions for advancing in any way.
• n. (obsolete) pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
• n. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
• adj. Likely to continue; viable.
• adj. That attends habitually or regularly.
• adj. Current, prevailing.
• adj. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.

impermanent

• adj. Not permanent; momentary.

last

• adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
• adj. Most recent, latest, last so far.
• adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
• adj. Being the only one remaining of its class.
• adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
• adj. Lowest in rank or degree.
• adv. Most recently.
• adv. (sequence) after everything else; finally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out.
• v. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
• v. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
• n. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
• v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
• n. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
• n. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
• n. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
• n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.

loss

• n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat.
• n. The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
• n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone, particularly in death.
• n. (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict.
• n. (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance.
• n. destruction, ruin.
• n. (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
• v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

overtaking

• v. present participle of overtake.
• n. The act by which one thing overtakes another.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

passage

• n. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
• n. Part of a path or journey.
• n. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
• n. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
• n. A passageway or corridor.
• n. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
• n. (euphemistic) The vagina.
• n. The act of passing.
• v. (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium.
• v. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
• n. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic,…
• v. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

perfunctory

• adj. Done merely to discharge a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and…

qualifying

• v. present participle of qualify.
• n. A qualification or added condition.
• n. An examination that must be taken in order to qualify.

reaction

• n. An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event.
• n. (chemistry) A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination…

release

• n. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked…
• n. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product;…
• n. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
• n. That which is released, untied or let go.
• n. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
• n. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
• n. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be…
• n. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
• v. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
• v. To make available to the public.
• v. To free or liberate; to set free.
• v. To discharge.
• v. (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
• v. (law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying…
• v. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
• v. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity.
• v. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
• v. (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

reordering

• v. present participle of reorder.
• n. A rearrangement.

response

• n. An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
• n. The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
• n. An oracular answer.
• n. (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or…
• n. (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
• n. A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
• n. An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination…
• n. A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.

satisfactory

• adj. Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient.

short-lived

• adj. Alive or existent for only a short period of time.

success

• n. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
• n. The achievement of one's aim or goal.
• n. (business) financial profitability.
• n. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
• n. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

temporary

• adj. Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
• adj. Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.
• n. One serving for a limited time; short-term employee.

transient

• adj. Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
• adj. Remaining for only a brief time.
• adj. (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
• adj. (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never…
• adj. Occasional; isolated; one-off; individual.
• adj. Passing through; passing from one person to another.
• adj. (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
• n. Something which is transient.
• n. (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
• n. (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such…
• n. A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
• n. An unhoused person.

transitory

• adj. Lasting only a short time; temporary.
• adj. (law, of an action) That may be brought in any county; opposed to local.