passive
adjective
[ ˈpasɪv ]
• accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.
• "the women were portrayed as passive victims"
Similar:
submissive,
acquiescent,
unresisting,
yielding,
unassertive,
non-resistant,
compliant,
complaisant,
pliant,
resigned,
obedient,
docile,
tractable,
malleable,
pliable,
meek,
subdued,
deferential,
forbearing,
long-suffering,
patient,
lamblike,
non-violent,
supine,
non-aggressive,
resistless,
• denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them ).
• (of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force.
• "a passive optical network is to be installed in 2000 homes"
• (of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide.
passive
noun
• a passive form of a verb.
Origin:
late Middle English(in passive (sense 2 of the adjective), also in the sense ‘(exposed to) suffering, acted on by an external agency’): from Latin passivus, from pass- ‘suffered’, from the verb pati .
