Arrival and Passing

Arrival

Arrival noun - The act of coming upon a scene.
Usage example: the groom blamed his belated arrival for the wedding on a huge traffic snarl

Passing is an antonym for arrival.

Nearby Words: arrive, arrived, arriving

Passing

Passing noun - The permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities.

Arrival is an antonym for passing.

Nearby Words: pass, passage, passed, passable, passingly

How words are described

confirmed confirmed arrival confirmed passing
true true arrival true passing
actual actual arrival actual passing
constant constant arrival constant passing
Other adjectives: untimely, early, later, inevitable, imminent, last, eventual, recent, sudden.

Both words in one sentence

  • He's so notorious for causing destruction that, in one instance, simply passing near a town causes economic collapse and a massive riot when the news of his arrival circulates.
  • Despite 2 millennia passing since their arrival, Roum and Cartha remain enemies.
  • Literature / Blackout It's particularly muddled in the first half of the first book, where Mike, Eileen, and Polly are all the same distance in time from leaving Oxford but because of their different arrival dates are therefore passing through the events of 1940 at different points in the story.
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