passive
[adjective]
Synonyms: submissive, compliant, docile, inactive, quiescent, receptive

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Antonyms: active
Contrasted words: resistant, resisting, unresigned, unsubmissive, unyielding
Related Words: apathetic, impassive, phlegmatic, stolid, bearing, enduring, patient, compliant, docile, tractable, nonviolent

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I. pas‧sive¹ AC /ˈpæsɪv/ adjective
[Word Family: noun: passivity; adverb: passively; adjective: passive]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin; Origin: passivus, from pati; ⇒ passion]

1. someone who is passive tends to accept things that happen to them or things that people say to them, without taking any action ⇒ impassive:
Kathy seems to take a very passive role in the relationship.
their passive acceptance of their fate

2. technical a passive verb or sentence has as its subject the person or thing to which an action is done, as in ‘His father was killed in a car accident.’ ⇒ active¹(6)
—passively adverb:
He listened passively as his sentence was read out.
—passivity /pæˈsɪvəti, pæˈsɪvɪti/ noun [uncountable]

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II. passive² AC noun
the passive technical the passive form of a verb, for example ‘was destroyed’ in the sentence ‘The building was destroyed during the war.’
⇒ active²

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passive
adj.
VERBS be, seem | became | remain
ADV. extremely, very | purely | fairly, rather, relatively, somewhat | essentially The heroine plays an essentially passive role in the drama.

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