Meaning of PASSIVE in English

Use in sentences of PASSIVE

Meaning of PASSIVE in English

• Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
• Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
• Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
• 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.

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