Hyphenation of PASSING

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word PASSING? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

PASS-ING

Definitions of PASSING:

1.	(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
2.	Euphemistic expressions for death Thousands mourned his passing
3.	The motion of one object relative to another Stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets
4.	The end of something The passing of winter
5.	A bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another The passage of air from the lungs The passing of flatus
6.	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
7.	Success in satisfying a test or requirement His future depended on his passing that test He got a pass in introductory chemistry
8.	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
9.	Of advancing the ball by throwing it A team with a good passing attack A pass play
10.	Allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily A passing grade
11.	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
12.	To an extreme degree Extremely cold Extremely unpleasant

Synonyms of PASSING:

adj	ephemeral, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious, impermanent, temporary
adj	passing
adj	satisfactory
adj	casual, cursory, perfunctory, careless
noun	pass, passing play, passing game, football play
noun	loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release, death, decease
noun	passage, movement, motion
noun	end, last, final stage
noun	passage, reaction, response
noun	overtaking, reordering
noun	pass, qualifying, success
adv	exceedingly, extremely

Last hyphenations of this language

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