Passive
/ˈpæsɪv/
/ˈpæsɪv/
Expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; Peacefully resistant in response to injustice; Lacking in energy or will.
adjectiveneutral
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1. He's passive and avoids conflict.
Generated by GPT.2. Her passive approach let others decide.
Generated by GPT.3. The passive person didn't assert herself.
Generated by GPT.4. He's passive but observant.
Generated by GPT.5. Her passive nature prevented progress.
Generated by GPT.6. The passive man seldom, if ever, expresses himself.
Quoted from Tatoeba.7. Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions.
Quoted from Tatoeba.8. Tom, you’re a man; passive resistance is not an option for you when someone you really love has been taken away like that...
Quoted from Tatoeba.9. He's a passive-aggressive teacher.
Quoted from Tatoeba.10. He is a passive-aggressive teacher.
Quoted from Tatoeba.11. He remained passive during the protest.
Quoted from Wiktionary.12. A passive balloon
Quoted from Wiktionary.13. A passive aeroplane
Quoted from Wiktionary.14. Passive flight, such as gliding and soaring
Quoted from Wiktionary.
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