passive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
finance
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient.
Inflected forms:
form: more passive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most passive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
pos: adj
gloss: Taking no action.
pos: adj
examples: He remained passive during the protest.
gloss: Being in the passive voice.
pos: adj
gloss: Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
pos: adj
gloss: Not participating in management.
pos: adj
gloss: Without motive power.
pos: adj
examples: a passive balloon
a passive aeroplane
passive flight, such as gliding and soaring
gloss: Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
pos: adj
gloss: Where allowance is made for a possible future event.
pos: adj
examples: There would be a shuttle service of four trains an hour from Reading, where the rebuilt station also has passive provision for the trains.
Synonyms: disinterested
uninvolved
Related words: passion
passionate
patience
patient
Derived words: activo-passive
antipassive
endopassive
exopassive
interpassive
long passive
mediopassive
neutropassive
nonpassive
paggro
passifan
passival
passivate
passivation
passive-aggressive
passive aggressor
passive armour
passive box
passive defense
passive-dependent
passive euthanasia
passive gravitational mass
passive immunity
passive income
passive investor
passive iron
passive learning
passively
passive matrix
passiveness
passive participle
passive photolocation
passive radar
passive resistance
passive resister
passive restraint
passive smoke
passive smoker
passive smoking
passive solar
passive speaker
passive suffrage
passive vape
passive vaper
passive vaping
passive vaporing
passive vapouring
passive vocabulary
passive voice
passivise
passivism
passivist
passivistic
passivity
passivization
passivize
pseudo-passive
pseudopassive
transpassive
unpassive
Translations:
lang: Aramaic
word: ܚܵܫܘܿܫܵܐ
roman: ḥāšōšā
lang: Belarusian
word: пасы́ўны
roman: pasýwny
lang: Bulgarian
word: паси́вен
roman: pasíven
lang: Catalan
word: passiu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 消極 /消极
roman: xiāojí
lang: Czech
word: pasivní
lang: Dutch
word: passief
lang: Estonian
word: loid
lang: Finnish
word: passiivinen
lang: French
word: passif
lang: German
word: passiv
lang: Ancient Greek
word: παθητικός
roman: pathētikós
lang: Hindi
word: निष्क्रिय
roman: niṣkriya
lang: Hungarian
word: passzív
lang: Italian
word: passivo
lang: Japanese
word: 受動的
roman: judōteki
lang: Japanese
word: 受け身
roman: ukemi
lang: Lithuanian
word: pasyvus
lang: Middle English
word: passyf
lang: Old English
word: þrowiendlīċ
lang: Persian
word: منفعل
roman: monfa'el
lang: Persian
word: پاسیو
roman: pâsiv
lang: Polish
word: bierny
lang: Portuguese
word: passivo
lang: Romanian
word: pasiv
lang: Russian
word: пасси́вный
roman: passívnyj
lang: Slovak
word: pasívny
lang: Spanish
word: pasivo
lang: Swedish
word: passiv
lang: Ukrainian
word: паси́вний
roman: pasývnyj
lang: Vietnamese
word: bị động
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 被動 /被动
roman: bèidòng
lang: Dutch
word: passief
lang: Finnish
word: passiivinen
lang: German
word: unterwürfig
lang: Italian
word: passivo
lang: Navajo
word: hoołtsoodii
lang: Portuguese
word: passivo
lang: Russian
word: пасси́вный
roman: passívnyj
lang: Slovak
word: pasívny
lang: Spanish
word: pasivo
lang: Turkish
word: pasif