Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Passive   /pˈæsɪv/   Listen
Passive

adjective
1.
Lacking in energy or will.  Synonym: inactive.
2.
Peacefully resistant in response to injustice.  Synonym: peaceful.
3.
Expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb.
noun
1.
The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb.  Synonym: passive voice.  "'The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"



Related searches:
passive air defense
passive immunity
passive matrix display
passive resistance
passive resister
passive source
passive transport
passive trust
passive voice
passiveness


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Passive" Quotes from Famous Books



... hysterical mind is one in which large tracts of consciousness seem to get detached from the main body, and to take the control of the subject for the time being, giving rise to the phenomena rather foolishly called double or multiple "personality." This is a disease proper to the passive-minded, to those who give way to a "drifting" tendency, and habitually suffer their whole interests to be absorbed by the strongest sensation or emotion that presents itself. Such minds are generally chaotic and unorganized, as is ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell
... the live waves turning, slip my tunic, Then run in naked. Cooled and soothed by swimming, Both mind and heart from their late tumult tuned To placid acquiescent health, I float, suspended in the limpid water, Passive, rhythmically governed; So tranced worlds travel the dark ...
— Miscellany of Poetry - 1919 • Various
... She lay passive in his arms a moment, and then he felt a shiver run through her, and saw that she was crying. He held her close to him, kissing and comforting her, while his own eyes were wet. What her emotion meant, ...
— Marriage a la mode • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Io, the languor of one who yields to unknown and fateful forces. Passive and at peace, she wanted nothing but to be wafted by the current to whatever far bourne might await her. That there should be such things as railway trains and man-made schedules in this world of winds and mystery and the voice of great waters, was hard to believe; hardly ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... even some of the prince's nearest neighbours had begun to oppose him. Vera Lebedeff's passive disagreement was limited to the shedding of a few solitary tears; to more frequent sitting alone at home, and to a diminished frequency in her visits to ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com