PASSIVE


Meaning of PASSIVE in English

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

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