glide by

Questions about glide by

What is another word for glide by?

It depends which glide by you mean. In the sense “pass by”, the synonyms are elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along. Across all 1 sense there are 8 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of glide by?

WordNet records no antonym for glide by. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for glide by come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of glide by

• Full entry for glide byAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for glide byWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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