passing

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Adverb
• HYPHEN: pass=ing
• COUNT in NET: 24 in 23 verses (in OT : 13 in 12 verses) (in NT : 11 in 11 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

passing, n. 

 The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.  [1913 Webster]

Passing bell, a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonies. Sir W. Scott. Longfellow.

passing, a. 

•  Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.  [1913 Webster]
•  Exceeding; surpassing, eminent.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

Passing note (Mus.), a character including a passing tone. -- Passing tone (Mus.), a tone introduced between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony.

passing, adv. 

 Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

passing, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 in senses of PASS v.
2 transient, fleeting (a passing glance).
3 cursory, incidental (a passing reference).
--n.
1 in senses of PASS v.
2 euphem. the death of a person (mourned his passing).

Idiom

passing note Mus. a note not belonging to the harmony but interposed to secure a smooth transition. passing shot Tennis a shot aiming the ball beyond and out of reach of the other player.

Derivative

passingly adv.

THESAURUS

passing

abandonment, abrupt, accidental, accompanying, act, ado, advance, advancement, afloat, afoot, aggrandizement, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, annihilation, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, bane, biological death, blackout, blocking, boost, brief, brittle, by the by, by the way, capricious, casual, cessation of life, changeable, circuit-riding, circumstantial, clinical death, concurrent resolution, constitution, corruptible, crossing the bar, current, cursory, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decampment, decease, deciduous, dematerialization, demise, departure, descending, disappearance, disappearing, dismissive, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, doing, doom, down-trending, downward, drifting, dying, ebb of life, eclipse, egress, elevation, elimination, en passant, enaction, enactment, end, end of life, ending, ennoblement, ephemeral, erasure, escape, eternal rest, evacuation, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, eventuating, exaltation, exit, exodus, expeditionary, expeditious, expiration, expiring, expiry, extinction, extinguishment, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, festinate, feverish, fickle, final summons, finger of death, fleeting, flight, flitting, flowing, fluent, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, furious, getaway, glancing, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, going off, going on, graduation, grave, gyrational, gyratory, hand of death, happening, hasty, hegira, hurried, immediate, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, in hand, in passing, in the wind, incidental, incidentally, inconstant, instant, insubstantial, itinerant, itinerary, jaws of death, joint resolution, journeying, knell, knighting, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last-minute, lawmaking, leaving, leaving life, legislation, legislature, locomotive, loss, loss of life, making an end, melting, momentary, mortal, mounting, moving, mundivagant, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, occasional, occultation, occurring, on, on foot, on the spot, on tour, ongoing, parenthetically, parting, passage, passing away, passing over, pay raise, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, perishable, perishing, pilgrimlike, plunging, preferment, prevailing, prevalent, progressing, progressive, promotion, prompt, quick, quietus, raise, reflowing, refluent, regressive, release, removal, resolution, rest, resultant, retirement, retreat, retrogressive, reward, rise, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, short-lived, sideward, silence, sinking, slap-bang, slapdash, sleep, slipping away, snap, soaring, somatic death, speedy, streaming, strolling, summary, summons of death, superficial, swift, taking place, temporal, temporary, touring, touristic, touristy, transient, transitional, transitive, transitory, traveling, trekking, under way, undurable, unenduring, unstable, up-trending, upgrading, upping, upward, urgent, vanishing, vanishing point, volatile, walking, walkout, wayfaring, wipe, withdrawal

ROGET THESAURUS

passing

Imperfection

N imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.

Greatness

N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Transientness

N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.

Passage

N passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage, passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.