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Synonyms for passive
ˈpæs ɪvpas·sive
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Wiktionary
passiveadjective
Synonyms:
idle, disinterested, uninvolved, inactiveAntonyms:
active, aggressivepassiveadjective
Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
Synonyms:
uninvolved, inactive, disinterested, idleAntonyms:
active, aggressivepassiveadjective
Taking no action.
He remained passive during the protest.
Synonyms:
uninvolved, inactive, idle, disinterestedAntonyms:
aggressive, activepassiveadjective
Being in the passive voice.
Synonyms:
idle, inactive, uninvolved, disinterestedAntonyms:
active, aggressivepassiveadjective
Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
Synonyms:
idle, uninvolved, disinterested, inactiveAntonyms:
active, aggressivepassiveadjective
Not participating in management.
Synonyms:
idle, disinterested, uninvolved, inactiveAntonyms:
active, aggressive
English Synonyms and Antonyms
passive
Synonyms:
docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, peaceable, quiet, submissive, tractable, yieldingAntonyms:
balky, fidgety, fractious, fretful, frisky, impatient, intractable, mulish, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, restiff, restive, restless, skittish, stubborn, unruly, vicious
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
passive
Synonyms:
inactive, inert, quiescent, unresisting, unquestioning, negative, enduring, patientAntonyms:
active, alert, resistant, positive, unsubmissive, malcontent, vehement, impatient
Princeton's WordNet
passive voice, passiveadjective
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
"`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"
Synonyms:
passive voiceAntonyms:
hands-on, active, proactive, activist, activistic, violentpassive, inactiveadjective
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:
dormant, still, inactive, peaceful, nonoperational, static, motionlessAntonyms:
proactive, violent, activistic, active, hands-on, activistpassive, peacefuladjective
peacefully resistant in response to injustice
"passive resistance"
Synonyms:
peaceable, inactive, peacefulAntonyms:
hands-on, active, violent, activist, activistic, proactivepassiveadjective
expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb
"academics seem to favor passive sentences"
Antonyms:
activistic, proactive, violent, activist, active, hands-on
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
passiveadjective
Synonyms:
quiet, quiescent, inert, inactive, not activepassiveadjective
Synonyms:
unresisting, submissive, patient, long-suffering
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
passiveadjective
Synonyms:
inactive, quiet, inert, receptive, quiescent, patient, unresisting, submissive
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "passive":
liabilities, liability, negative, reactive, inactive, second-hand, passivity
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#390 | still | |
#1919 | patient | |
#2605 | negative | |
#2711 | static | |
#2905 | liability | |
#4205 | quiet | |
#7533 | liabilities | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#8588 | passive | |
#8633 | peaceful | |
#9013 | idle | |
#10506 | inactive | |
#13453 | reactive | |
#16309 | enduring | |
#18856 | yielding | |
#22418 | manageable | |
#26145 | dormant | |
#27289 | inert | |
#29257 | submissive | |
#35374 | obedient | |
#44165 | motionless | |
#47831 | disinterested | |
#51881 | quiescent | |
#62800 | tractable | |
#66707 | docile | |
#66951 | passivity | |
#69570 | peaceable | |
#112393 | uninvolved | |
#119268 | unquestioning | |
#311193 | unresisting |
How to use passive in a sentence?
Now we need to start focusing more on active measures to help people take up the jobs that are available, rather than passive measures that pay people not to work.
If I were one of our Sunni Arab allies watching this, I'd be encouraged that America was back in the business of being more assertive, less passive. That does not mean you are going to send in the troops every time there is a skirmish somewhere, but I thought it was very reassuring.
More and more money is going to passive products and strategies and away from active managers - who have failed to meet the returns of the indices, passive products are by definition not as energetic - it is a strategy that trades less actively - compared to active managers.
Watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will.
The weight of money flowing into products in this area, whether they are active or passive, will shift the cost of capital for companies.
Translations for passive
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- سلبيArabic
- passiuCatalan, Valencian
- unterwürfig, passiv, passivischGerman
- παθητικήGreek
- pasivoSpanish
- passiiv, loidEstonian
- منفعل, مجهول, پاسیوPersian
- passiivinen, koroton, passiivimuoto, passiivimuotoinen, passiiviFinnish
- passive, passifFrench
- fulangachScottish Gaelic
- կրավորականArmenian
- passivoItalian
- 受動的, 受け身, 受動態Japanese
- ಕರ್ಮಣಿKannada
- passiefDutch
- passivNorwegian
- passivoPortuguese
- supus, pasivRomanian
- страдательный, бездеятельный, пассивныйRussian
- pësorAlbanian
- passivSwedish
- செயலற்றTamil
- bị động, thụ độngVietnamese
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