passive
Other forms: passives
Passive is the opposite of active. In English class, you might be advised to avoid the passive voice. In chemistry, a passive substance doesn't react. Passive resistance is a way to protest peacefully.
When you're passive, you don't participate much and you're not very emotional. In chemistry, passive means to be "unreactive except under special or extreme conditions; inert." Gandhi used the term passive resistance in the mid-twentieth century to describe the nonviolent approach Indians should use in their quest to become an independent nation.
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lacking in energy or will“"Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith”synonyms: inactivehands-offnot involving participation or intervention
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peacefully resistant in response to injustice“passive resistance”synonyms: peacefulnonviolentabstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
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expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb“academics seem to favor passive sentences”antonyms:activeexpressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions"
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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”synonyms: passive voicetype of:voice(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
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