
The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread.
- Milton.
The best virtue, passive fortitude.
- Massinger.
3.(Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
Passive congestion
(Med.) congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron
Passive movement
(Med.) a movement of a part, in order to exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience
Passive prayer
Passive verb
Synonyms: passive voice
Adj.1.passive - lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith
Synonyms: inactive
2.passive - peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"
Synonyms: peaceful
3.passive - expressing thatthe subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences"
active - expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions"

PASSIVE, com. law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in contradistinction to active. (q.v.) By active debts are understood those which may be employed in furnishing assets to a merchant to pay those which he owes, which are called passive debts.

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