passee

Other forms of passee

comparative

passeer·

superlative

passeest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about passee

What does passee mean?

passee means "out of fashion".

How many syllables are in passee?

passee has 2 syllables: pas-see. The stress falls on "pas".

What is another word for passee?

Close synonyms include antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is passee a common word?

passee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.