- ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious - enduring 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"
Antonyms: permanent, lasting (indirect, via impermanent)
- passing, pass - of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play"
Antonym: running
- passing - allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"
Antonym: unsatisfactory (indirect, via satisfactory)
- casual, cursory, passing, perfunctory - 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"
Antonym: careful (indirect, via careless)
- exceedingly, passing, extremely - to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective"
- pass, passing play, passing game, 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"
--1 is a kind of football play
--1 has particulars:forward pass, aerial; lateral pass, lateral; spot pass Derived form: verb pass21 - passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release - euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
--2 is a kind of death, decease
Derived form: verb pass25 - passing, passage - the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
--3 is a kind of movement, motion
Derived form: verb pass7 - passing - the end of something; "the passing of winter"
--4 is a kind of end, last, final stage
Derived form: verb pass13 - passage, passing - a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
--5 is a kind of reaction, response
Derived form: verb pass26 - passing, overtaking - 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"
--6 is a kind of reordering
Derived form: verb pass7 - passing, pass, qualifying - success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
--7 is a kind of success
Antonyms: failing
Derived forms: verb pass14, verb pass16
- pass, go through, go across - go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass - pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"
--2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun passer1
These cars won't pass
- legislate, pass - make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"
--3 is one way to ordain, enact
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun passage4
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along - pass by; "three years elapsed"
--4 is one way to advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give - place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
--5 is one way to transfer
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun passage10
They pass the food to the people
They pass the people the food
- run, go, pass, lead, extend - stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
--6 is one way to be
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
- pass, overtake, overhaul - travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
--7 is one way to advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun passage9, noun passing3, noun passing6
These cars won't pass
- happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place - come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
- pass, clear - go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House"
--9 is one way to succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- spend, pass - pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- guide, run, draw, pass - guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- communicate, pass on, pass, put across - transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"
--12 is one way to convey, transmit, communicate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass - disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"
--13 is one way to disappear, vanish, go away
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun passing4
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- pass, make it - go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
--14 is one way to succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
Antonyms: fail, flunk, bomb, flush it
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun passer3, noun passing7
Somebody ----s
=> Somebody ----s something
- exceed, transcend, overstep, pass, go past, top - go beyond; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year"
--15 is one way to excel, stand out, surpass
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- pass - accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
--16 is one way to judge
Antonyms: fail
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun pass11, noun passing7
Somebody ----s somebody
- pass - allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
--17 is one way to let, allow, permit
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- pass - transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control"
--18 is one way to change
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- sink, pass, lapse - pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana"
--19 is one way to move
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun passage1
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- pass - be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone or something else; as by denying one's own ancestry or background; "He could pass as his twin brother"; "She passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was Black"
--20 is one way to be
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun passer2
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- pass - throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed"
--21 is one way to throw
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun passer4, noun pass3, noun passing1
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- fall, return, pass, devolve - be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
--22 is one way to change hands
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- pass, make pass - cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- authorize, authorise, pass, clear - grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
--24 is one way to permit, allow, let, countenance
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun pass5
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass - pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
--25 is one way to change state, turn
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun passing2
Somebody ----s
- excrete, egest, eliminate, pass - eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
--26 is one way to discharge, expel, eject, release
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun passing5
Somebody ----s something
- pass - transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control"