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pass for

pass for verb: to be mistakenly seen as something that one is not.

Verb

pass for (third-person singular simple present passes for, present participle passing for, simple past and past participle passed for)

  1. (transitive) To be mistakenly seen as something that one is not
    • When I visited the offices in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge.2006, The New Yorker, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2012
  2. (transitive) To be sufficient, especially minimally so, for a specified purpose.

pass for meaning in Tamil

pass for in Tamil

ஒன்றாக ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளப்படுதல், கருதப்படுதல்

Forms of pass for

third-person singular presentpasses for
present participlepassing for
past participlepassed for
pastpassed for

Questions about pass for

What does pass for mean?
Pass for means to be mistakenly seen as something that one is not.
What is pass for in Tamil?
Pass for in Tamil is ஒன்றாக ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளப்படுதல், கருதப்படுதல். See Pass for meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pass for?
Pass for is a verb.
What is the past tense of pass for?
The past tense of pass for is passed for.

Words near pass for in the dictionary

  1. pass check
  2. pass checks
  3. pass current
  4. pass degree
  5. pass down
  6. pass for
  7. pass gas
  8. pass grip
  9. pass grips
  10. pass in one's checks
  11. pass it down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pass for (page history and authors); pass for (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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