passing
     adj 1: 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" [syn: {ephemeral}, {short-lived},
             {transient}, {transitory}, {fugacious}]
     2: of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good
        passing attack"; "a pass play" [syn: {passing(a)}, {pass(a)}]
        [ant: {running(a)}]
     3: allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection)
        satisfactorily; "a passing grade" [syn: {passing(a)}]
     4: 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" [syn: {casual}, {cursory}, {passing(a)},
         {perfunctory}]
     n 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" [syn: {pass}, {passing play}, {passing
          game}]
     2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
        passing" [syn: {loss}, {departure}, {exit}, {expiration},
        {going}, {release}]
     3: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar
        passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: {passage}]
     4: the end of something; "the passing of winter"
     5: a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to
        another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing
        of flatus" [syn: {passage}]
     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" [syn: {overtaking}]
     7: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future
        depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in
        introductory chemistry" [syn: {pass}, {qualifying}] [ant:
        {failing}]
     adv : to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was
           exceedingly defective" [syn: {exceedingly}, {extremely}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0