adjective
1.
Synonyms: inactive , asleep, idle, inert, quiet, sleepy
Related Word: apathetic, impassive, phlegmatic, stolid
Antonyms: active
2.
receiving or enduring without resistance
a passive acceptance of her fate
Synonyms: acquiescent, nonresistant, nonresisting, resigned, submissive, unresistant, unresisting, yielding
Related Word: bearing, enduring, patient; compliant, docile, tractable; nonviolent
Contrasted words: resistant, resisting, unresigned, unsubmissive, unyielding