bypass | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, ring road, ringway |
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(noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | Synonyms: electrical shunt, shunt |
(noun) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | - |
(verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
compass | (noun) navigational instrument for finding directions | - |
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(noun) drafting instrument used for drawing circles | - |
(noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, orbit, range, reach, scope |
(noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: grasp, range, reach |
(verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
(verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: circumnavigate |
(verb) bring about; accomplish | - |
compassion | (noun) the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | Synonyms: pity |
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(noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassionateness |
compassionate | (adjective) showing or having compassion | - |
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(verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with |
compassionately | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: pityingly |
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compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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dispassion | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassionateness, dryness |
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dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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dispassionately | (adverb) in an impartially dispassionate manner | - |
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dispassionateness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dryness |
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encompass | (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, embrace |
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encompassing | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, surrounding |
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(adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, extensive, panoptic, wide |
encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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gyrocompass | (noun) a compass that does not depend on magnetism but uses a gyroscope instead | - |
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impassable | (adjective) incapable of being passed | Synonyms: unpassable |
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impasse | (noun) a street with only one way in or out | Synonyms: blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street |
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(noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, stalemate, standstill |
impassioned | (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, perfervid, torrid |
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impassive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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(adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: stolid |
impassively | (adverb) in an impassive manner | - |
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impassiveness | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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impassivity | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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nonpasserine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds | - |
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overpass | (noun) bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | Synonyms: flyover |
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pass | (adjective) of advancing the ball by throwing it | Synonyms: passing |
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(noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: flip, toss |
(noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, whirl |
(noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: passing, passing game, passing play |
(noun) (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls | Synonyms: base on balls, walk |
(noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: passing, qualifying |
(noun) a flight or run by an aircraft over a target | - |
(noun) a permit to enter or leave a military installation | Synonyms: liberty chit |
(noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: passport |
(noun) an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent | Synonyms: bye |
(noun) a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions | Synonyms: laissez passer |
(noun) a complimentary ticket | - |
(noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, straits |
(noun) one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer) | - |
(noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, notch |
(noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: strait, straits |
(noun) (military) a written leave of absence | - |
(verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete |
(verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place |
(verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off |
(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
(verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear |
(verb) transmit information | Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across |
(verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, run |
(verb) go across or through | - |
(verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, overtake |
(verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, sink |
(verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by |
(verb) cause to pass | Synonyms: make pass |
(verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by |
(verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over |
(verb) throw (a ball) to another player | - |
(verb) transfer to another; of rights or property | - |
(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, return |
(verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: legislate |
(verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: clear |
(verb) accept or judge as acceptable | - |
(verb) go successfully through a test or a selection process | Synonyms: make it |
(verb) allow to go without comment or censure | - |
(verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: spend |
(verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend |
(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run |
passable | (adjective) able to be passed or traversed or crossed | - |
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(adjective) about average; acceptable | Synonyms: adequate, fair to middling, tolerable |
passably | (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
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passado | (noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: lunge, straight thrust |
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passage | (noun) a journey usually by ship | Synonyms: transit |
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(noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: enactment |
(noun) the act of passing something to another person | Synonyms: handing over |
(noun) the act of passing from one state or place to the next | Synonyms: transition |
(noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passing |
(noun) a way through or along which someone or something may pass | - |
(noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passageway |
(noun) a section of text; particularly a section of medium length | - |
(noun) a short section of a musical composition | Synonyms: musical passage |
(noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passing |
passageway | (noun) a passage between rooms or between buildings | - |
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(noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passage |
passant | (adjective) in walking position with right foreleg raised | - |
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passbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: bankbook |
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passe | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passee |
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passee | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe |
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passel | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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passer | (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass | Synonyms: forward passer |
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(noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passerby |
(noun) a student who passes an examination | - |
(noun) a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group | - |
passerby | (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passer |
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passerine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | - |
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(noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
passim | (adverb) used to refer to cited works | Synonyms: throughout |
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passing | (adjective) of advancing the ball by throwing it | Synonyms: pass |
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(adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, perfunctory, superficial |
(adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, short-lived, transient, transitory |
(adjective) allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily | - |
(noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: overtaking |
(noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: pass, qualifying |
(noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: pass, passing game, passing play |
(noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passage |
(noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, release |
(noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passage |
(noun) the end of something | - |
(adverb) to an extraordinary degree | Synonyms: surpassingly |
passion | (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: heat, warmth |
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(noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: love |
(noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passionateness |
(noun) a feeling of strong sexual desire | - |
(noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, mania |
(noun) something that is desired intensely | Synonyms: rage |
passionate | (adjective) having or expressing strong emotions | - |
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passionately | (adverb) with passion | - |
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(adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: stormily, turbulently |
passionateness | (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passion |
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passionflower | (noun) any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit | Synonyms: passionflower vine |
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passionless | (adjective) not passionate | - |
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(adjective) unmoved by feeling | Synonyms: emotionless |
passive | (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: inactive |
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(adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb | - |
(adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: peaceful |
(noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: passive voice |
passively | (adverb) in a passive manner | - |
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passiveness | (noun) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | Synonyms: passivity |
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(noun) submission to others or to outside influences | Synonyms: passivity |
passivism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, pacifism |
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passivity | (noun) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | Synonyms: passiveness |
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(noun) submission to others or to outside influences | Synonyms: passiveness |
passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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passport | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: recommendation |
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(noun) a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country | - |
(noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: pass |
password | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, watchword, word |
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surpass | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount |
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(verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass, pass by, travel by |
(verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: excel, stand out |
(verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, transcend |
surpassing | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious |
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(adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: transcendent |
surpassingly | (adverb) to an extraordinary degree | Synonyms: passing |
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trespass | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, usurpation, violation |
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(noun) a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages | - |
(verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, transgress |
(verb) break the law | - |
(verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: intrude |
(verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, transgress |
(verb) make excessive use of | Synonyms: take advantage |
trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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trespassing | (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, invasive |
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uncompassionate | (adjective) lacking compassion or feeling for others | - |
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underpass | (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: subway |
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unimpassioned | (adjective) free from emotional appeal; marked by reasonableness | - |
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unpassable | (adjective) incapable of being passed | Synonyms: impassable |
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unsurpassable | (adjective) not to be exceeded | - |
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unsurpassed | (adjective) not capable of being improved on | Synonyms: unexceeded, unexcelled |
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