Dictionary Entry
passive
passive is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
- 2adjective
Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
- 3adjective
Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
- 4adjective
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.
- 5noun
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"
- 6adjective
lacking in energy or will- George Meredith
"Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"
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- 7adjective
expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb
"academics seem to favor passive sentences"
- 8adjective
peacefully resistant in response to injustice
"passive resistance"
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