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Adjective: passive  pa-siv
  1. Lacking in energy or will
    - inactive
  2. Peacefully resistant in response to injustice
    "passive resistance";
    - peaceful
  3. (grammar) expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb
    "academics seem to favour passive sentences"
Noun: passive  pa-siv
    - passive voice

Derived forms: passives

See also: hands-off, nonviolent, passiveness, passivity, resistless, supine, unresisting

Type of: voice

Antonym: active

Encyclopedia: Passive