surpassing

Questions about surpassing

What does surpassing mean?

surpassing means "exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surpassing?

surpassing has 3 syllables: sur-pas-sing. The stress falls on "pas". In IPA it is /sɚˈpæsɪŋ/.

What is another word for surpassing?

Close synonyms include transcendent, exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious. 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 surpassing a common word?

surpassing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with surpassing?

1 word rhymes with surpassing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.