Passive

What do we mean by passive?

Receiving or subjected to an action without responding or initiating an action in return. adjective

Accepting or submitting without objection or resistance; submissive. adjective

Existing, conducted, or experienced without active or concerted effort. adjective

Of, relating to, or being certain bonds or shares that do not bear financial interest. adjective

Of, relating to, or being a solar heating or cooling system that uses no external mechanical power. adjective

Of, relating to, or being a verb form or voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject is the object of the action or the effect of the verb. For example, in the sentence They were impressed by his manner, were impressed is in the passive voice. adjective

Unreactive except under special or extreme conditions; inert. adjective

Exhibiting no gain or contributing no energy. adjective

Relating to or being an inactive or submissive role in a relationship, especially a sexual relationship. adjective

The passive voice. noun

A verb or construction in the passive voice. noun

Suffering; not acting; inactive; receiving or capable of receiving impressions from external objects.

Receptive; unresisting; not opposing; receiving or suffering without resistance: as, passive obedience; passive submission to the laws.

In grammar, expressive of the suffering or enduring of some action, or the being affected by some action: applied to a derivative mode of conjugation, by which that which is the object of the other or “active” form is made the subject of the enduring of the verbal action: thus, Lydia a me amatur, ‘Lydia is loved by me,’ is corresponding passive to ego Lydiam amo, ‘I love Lydia.’

Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences. adjective

Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting adjective

Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong affinity. adjective

Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. adjective

Congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. adjective

Iron which has been subjected to the action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It is then not easily acted upon by acids. adjective

(grammar) The passive voice of verbs.

(grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.

A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth.

Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.

Words that are spelled similarly to passive:
passive, massive, passivo, passiv.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word passive:
participle, intransitive, sonar, homing, infinitive, rfid, reflexive, scanned, euthanasia, verbs, verb, capacitors, radiator, diffusion, intellect, obedience, margins, infrared, cooling, immunity, smoking, seismic, active, microwave, solar, radar, array, sensor, resistance, ventilation, aggressive, optical, detect, tense, heating, filter, voice, margin, detection, thermal, recreation, drag, antenna, components, auxiliary, acoustic, devices, actively, clause, monitoring, listening, attitude, strategies, surveillance, heat, device, noise, radiation, safety, sentence, matrix, object, frequency, magnetic, continental, mode, systems, perfect, electronics, external, require, component, abilities, electrical, mechanical, mechanism, signal, techniques, phrase.

Words that rhyme with passive:
massive, impassive, brasov, amass of, bass of, bassa of, bluegrass of, bras of, brass of, bypass of, cas of, casque of, cass of, casse of, chasse of, class of, crass of, das of, dass of, frass of, gas of, glas of, glass of, gras of, grass of, harass of, hourglass of, impasse of, jackass of, landmass of, lass of, mass of, masse of, morass of, nasa of, overpass of, pascha of, pass of, ras of, sas of, tass of, trespass of, underclass of.

Adjectives that are often used to describe passive:
perfect, impersonal, active, present, more, past, future, english, corresponding, indirect, divine, progressive, direct, adjectival, infinitive, periphrastic, verbal, true, less, personal, simple, reflexive, indicative, full, aorist, subjunctive, imperfect, latter, transitive, adversative, female, internal, synthetic, canonical, regular, prepositional, latin, called, singular, negative, lexical, japanese, morphological, weak, perfective, recipient, double, promotional, syntactic, agentive, get, finnish, theological, intransitive, fronted, secondary, least, bottom, adjective, participial, analytic, inflected, dependent, stative, imperative, preterite, statal, notional, causative, pluperfect, actional, greek, truncated, conditional, attributive, prototypical, pressure, sanskrit.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective passive:
resistance, voice, role, obedience, movement, motion, immunity, acceptance, attitude, congestion, movements, diffusion, form, transfer, state, immunization, recipients, smoking, recipient, process, systems, income, victims, components, construction, range, elements, participle, constructions, sentences, activity, object, verb, behavior, exercises, victim, spectator, transport, flexion, instrument, approach, film, objects, verbs, observer, euthanasia, submission, mode, devices, acquiescence, response, avoidance, spectators, activities, element, reception, sentence, stretch, pressure, network, extension, exercise, partner, properties, losses, margins, agent, observers, protection, margin, principle, techniques, learning, subject, defense, hyperemia, aggression, stance, anaphylaxis, resisters, heating, roles, transformation.

Consonant match to passive:
perceive, pace of, paisa of, pascha of, pass of, peace of, pearse of, peece of, perce of, pers of, piece of, pisa of, piss of, purse of, pus of.

Words that sound like passive:
passive, passiv, passing, pacif, passives, pursive, passa, pasang, passes, passage, perceive, pacing, pensive, pissing, passe, paso, passover, piecing, passy, pasing, plosive, pulsive, passo, pressive, passi, passee, pass over, pass off, pasay, passau, passow, pisa, pasa, paisa, pissa, posa, pesa, pasas, pesah, pacis, passus, pisang, passade, possa, peace dove, pasach, pasty, pasley, pastilles, passkey, paskey, pass key, past, pass, passed, massive, pc, paces, passer, pausing, passively, impassive, pav, pass out, passout, pacey, patching, passat, pasto, paseo, pasos, pacy, pascoe, passel, pask, pasch, pasd, pasque, pathing, bassa, pasin, pashing, pasi, pca, pasg, p c, passos, paysage, pass-out, pasig, brasov, pasu, pasic, pasma, p wave, pasok, paslay, passu, pasc, house of.