passing comment

1. 1.

   an incidental remark

   Synonymsobiter dictum

   Broaderremark

Questions about passing comment

What does passing comment mean?

passing comment means "an incidental remark".

What is another word for passing comment?

Close synonyms include obiter dictum. 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 passing comment a common word?

passing comment 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.