Usually means: Adequately but not exceptionally well.
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  1. passingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. passingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. passingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. passingly: Vocabulary.com
  5. passingly: Wordnik
  6. passingly: Wiktionary
  7. Passingly, passingly: Dictionary.com
  8. Passingly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. passingly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Passingly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. passingly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. passingly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Passingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. passingly: Legal dictionary

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  1. passingly: Idioms

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▸ adverb:  Synonym of in passing

Similar:
en passant, fleetingly, glancingly, brushingly, cursorily, obiter, offhandedly, passably, transiently, pifflingly, more...

Opposite:
permanently, thoroughly, extensively, deeply, completely

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Similar:
en passant, fleetingly, glancingly, brushingly, cursorily, obiter, offhandedly, passably, transiently, pifflingly, more...

Opposite:
permanently, thoroughly, extensively, deeply, completely



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