n. Function: adjective
1
Synonyms: INACTIVE , asleep, idle, inert, quiet, sleepy
Related Words: apathetic, impassive, phlegmatic, stolid
Antonyms: active
2 receiving or enduring without resistance FF1C; a passive acceptance of her fate FF1E;
Synonyms: acquiescent, nonresistant, nonresisting, resigned, submissive, unresistant, unresisting, yielding
Related Words: bearing, enduring, patient; compliant, docile, tractable; nonviolent
Contrasted Words: resistant, resisting, unresigned, unsubmissive, unyielding