Passive

Definitions: Passive

Passive

Adjective

1. Lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith.

2. Peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance".

3. (grammar) passive voice.

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "passive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Etymology: Passive \Pas"sive\, adjective. [Latin expression passivus: compare to the French expression passif. See Passion.]. (Websters 1913)

Aerospace

Finance

Language

Military & Defense

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Passive

Inaction

Adjective: not doing; Verb: not done; Verb: undone; passive; unoccupied, unemployed; out of employ, out of work; fallow; desaeuvre.

Obedience

Restrainable; resigned, passive; submissive; henpecked; pliant; (soft).

Physical Inertness

Adjective: inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential.

Crosswords: Passive

You will know when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack. (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

The real Molly Brown would not have been as passive (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

Ahh, passive resistance. (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

You know Grace, you're usually so passive I'd forgotten that you had any wit. (Passions; writing credit: Jean Chapot; Nelly Kaplan)

Your defense policy is too passive. You need more resources (24; writing credit: Mark Clompus; Marvin Close)

Passive aggression (references; author: unknown)

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References

• Passive Components in France: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Passive Components: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Passive Components: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Passive Components in Oceana (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Passive Components (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Passive Solar Heating Analysis Design Manual (#90110) (reference)

• Passive Solar House Basics (reference)

• The Passive Man's Guide to Seduction (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bazooka 8 in. Passive Subwoofer Tube (RS804DV) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Passive Millimeter Wave Camera (PMMWC) at TRW.Credit: NASA.

Echo - A Passive Communications Satellite.Credit: NASA.

Water Quality Sample, Passive Treatment, bio-reactorSoutheastern IdahoUpper Snake River District.Credit: Steve Moore.

Passive Treatment, Bio-Reactor SystemChampagne CreekSoutheastern IdahoUpper Snake River District.Credit: Steve Moore.

Passive Treatment, Bio-Reactor SystemChampagne CreekSoutheastern IdahoUSRDUpper Snake River District.Credit: Steve Moore.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And no doubt Ulysses, who was a prudent man, preached up passive obedience, and exhorted them to a quiet submission, by representing to them of what concernment peace was to mankind; and by shewing the inconveniences might happen, if they should offer to resist Polyphemus, who had now the power over them. (Second Treatise of Government)

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There could be no harm in a scheme, a mere passive scheme.

They are subject to the prioress with an absolute and passive submission.

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Health

This role is passive rather than active. (references)

IVIG is also being used for specific passive immunotherapy. (references)

The spinal cord is not just a passive conduit carrying signals to and from the brain. (references)

Business

All of the types of solar power described are active applications and should not be confused with passive solar energy applications. (references)

The United States leads the market for semiconductor EIPT equipment, while Japan controls the EIPT markets in finished electronic products and passive components. (references)

Equipment and systems purchased include active and passive technology, including safes, armored doors and burglar resistant windows and electronic protection devices. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

Many companies operate in niche sectors/technologies with predominant activity centered on non-powered passive devices. (references)

Brazil

According to Abinne -- the Brazilian Association of the Electro-Electronics Industry -- imports of semi conductors account for approximately 50 percent of Brazilian imports of electronic components followed by passive components and cathode ray tubes. (references)

Belgium

In the future, it will count as passive bribery if a government official or employer requests or accepts a benefit for himself or somebody else in exchange for behaving in a certain way. (references)

Human Rights

Nicaragua

The judiciary is hampered by arcane legal codes; prosecutors who play a passive role; an underfunded, and understaffed defender's office; judges and lawyers who often lack sufficient training or education; and corruption. (references)

Colombia

Credible allegations of cooperation with paramilitary groups, including instances of both passive support and direct collaboration by members of the public security forces, in particular the army, continued. (references)

Political Economy

PANAMA

It remains a large, yet passive investor in recently privatized telecommunications, ports, and energy sectors. (references)

Political Rights

Marshall Islands

Women's cultural responsibilities and traditionally passive roles and the generally early age of pregnancies can make it difficult for women to obtain political qualifications or experience. (references)

Liberia

There were 16 opposition parties, most of which had little popular support outside of the capital, and opposition legislators, who held only one-quarter of the seats in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, generally were more passive than members of the ruling NPP. Congressional committees failed to develop expertise in their respective areas of responsibility. (references)

Worker Rights

Armenia

The Constitution provides for the right to strike; however, workers have neither the financial resources to maintain a strike nor enforceable legal protection against retaliation, and existing unions play a relatively passive role. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "passive": passive aeroplane ♦ passive air defense ♦ passive antibody therapy ♦ passive attitude ♦ passive balance ♦ passive balloon ♦ passive bus ♦ passive congestion ♦ Passive Cutaneous Anaphylaxis ♦ passive devices ♦ passive diffusion ♦ passive diffusion transport ♦ passive failure of automatic systems ♦ passive flight ♦ passive fund management ♦ passive homing guidance ♦ passive hyperaemia ♦ passive immunity ♦ passive income ♦ passive iron ♦ passive loss ♦ passive matrix display ♦ passive measure ♦ passive mine ♦ passive movement ♦ passive obedience ♦ passive paralleling ♦ passive participle ♦ passive power ♦ passive prayer ♦ passive protection measure ♦ passive public information policy ♦ passive resistance ♦ passive resister ♦ passive sonar ♦ passive system ♦ passive transport ♦ passive trust ♦ passive tuple ♦ passive verb ♦ passive voice ♦ S passive bus ♦ the passive voice. Additional references.

Beginning with "passive": Passive-Aggressive, Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder, passive-like, passive-matrix, passive-obedience, passive-oral.

Ending with "passive": part-passive.

Albanian

pasiv (inactive, lukewarm), pësor, jo aktiv (inactive, torpid), inert, i nënshtruar (deferred, reduced, servile, slavish, subject, submissive, subordinate, under, yielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسول (dull, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lumpish, shiftless, slothful, slow, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, supine), ‏منفعل (agitated, bad tempered, deeply stirred, edgy, emotional, excited, influenced, irritable, nervous, on edge, on fire, palatal, upset, wrought up), ‏مبني للمجهول, ‏غير فعال (feckless, feeble, inactive, ineffectual, inefficient, inert, inoperative), ‏سلبي (minus, negative, predatory, supine, unfavorable, unfavourable), ‏صيغة المفعول, ‏صيغة المجهول, ‏صوت مستتر, ‏بليد (bovine, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, inanimate, lethargic, light minded, lumpish, obtuse, silly, sleepy, slow, slow moving, sluggish, stupid, thick-headed, torpid, unworkable). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страдателен залог, страдателен, безучастен (cool, impersonal, indifferent, unconcerned, unimpressed, vacant), безлихвен, бездеен (helter-skelter, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, inoperative, sluggish, supine, torpid), пасивен (inactive, static, vegetable), пасив (debit side, liabilities), инертен (dead, dormant, inactive, inert, nerveless, phlegmatic, quiescent, stationary). (various references)

Chinese 

被动 (Passivity), 被動 , 消極 . (various references)

Czech

pasivum, pasivní (unresponsive), trpný rod, trpný, neteèný (apathetic, impassive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lethargic, phlegmatic, sleepy, sluggish, supine), neèinný (dormant, idle, inactive, inert, vacant). (various references)

Danish

passiv (capital, liabilities, passive voice, quiescent, reserves and liabilities, stockholders'equity and liabilities). (various references)

Dutch

passief. (various references)

Faeroese

í tolsøgn. (various references)

Farsi 

مفعول (Object), مطیع وتسلیم , کنش پذیر, غیرفعال (Inactive), تاثرپذیر (Impressionable), تابع (Accessory, Adjective, Ancillary, Citizen, Function, Incident, Sub, Submission, Subsidiary, Suffragan, Tributary), انفعالی , دستخوش عامل خارجی , بیحال (Insensate, Lethargic, Supine, Torpid). (various references)

Finnish

passiiva (capital, liabilities, reserves and liabilities, stockholders'equity and liabilities). (various references)

French

passif (passive voice), inactif. (various references)

Frisian

passyf. (various references)

German

passiv (capital, liabilities, passive voice, passively, reserves and liabilities, stockholders'equity and liabilities, the passive voice, unfavorable, unfavourable), untätig (dormant, idle, idly, inactive, inactively, quiescent). (various references)

Greek 

παθητικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

פעול (verbification), פסיבי, סביל (endurable, tolerable). (various references)

Hungarian

passzív (effortless, tame), tétlen (be inactive, idle, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, inoperative, leisured, quiescent, sluggish, torpid, unemployed, vacuous), szenvedõ (sufferer, suffering). (various references)

Indonesian

pasif. (various references)

Italian

passivo (capital, debit, debtor side, deficit, idle, liabilities, liabilities side, loss, passive voice, reserves and liabilities, stockholders'equity and liabilities). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, pack, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, pad, paddle, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passage, passenger, passing, passion, passionate, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch, patch test, patchwork, pate, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, putty, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."), 受身 (passive voice), 消極的 , 受動的 , 受動 , 受け身 (passive voice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パッシブ , しょうきょくてき, うけみ (passive voice), じゅどうてき, じゅどう (Confucianism). (various references)

Korean 

수동. (various references)

Manx

taaue (inert, motionless; unemployed, out of work; retch, qualm, quiescent, squeam), surransagh (forbearing, in-patient, patient, sufferable, sufferer, supportable, tolerable, tolerant), fuillaghtagh (blood shedder, endurable; bloodthirsty, homicide, patient, shedding blood, suffering; sufferable, tolerable). (various references)

Papiamen

pasivo. (various references)

Pig Latin

assivepay

Portuguese

passivo (capital, effrontery, liabilities, liability, reserves and liabilities, stockholders'equity and liabilities). (various references)

Romanian

pasiv (inactive, languid, liability, passively, quiescent, recumbent, tame, unemployed), supus (acquiescent, compliant, duteous, dutiful, dutifully, humble, meek, meekly, obedient, obediential, subject, submissive, submissively, supple, tame, yielding), liniştit (breathless, calm, calmly, comfortable, composed, cool, dead, dispassionate, easy, even, gentle, gently, gently-sloping, halcyon, imperturbable, in comfortable circumstances, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, serene, silent, slow, smooth, sober, soft, still, tranquil, unabashed, unruffled, untroubled), inert (dull, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, inert, inertly, lazy, nerveless, sluggish), inactiv (dead, dormant, flat, idle, inactive, inoperative, slow, unemployed), diatezã pasivã, care nu face rãu, blând (benign, bland, Clement, docile, dovelike, easy-tempered, fair, genial, gentle, gently, good hearted, good natured, harmless, lenient, meek, mild, mildly, Pacific, peaceable, placable, silken, soft, steady, sweet, tame, tender, tractable). (various references)

Russian 

пассивный (dormant, effortless, quiescent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pasivan (backward), pasiv, trpni, neaktivan (inactive). (various references)

Spanish

pasivo (capital, debit, debtor side, idle, liabilities, liabilities side, passive voice, reserves and liabilities, stockholders'equity and liabilities). (various references)

Swedish

passiv (dormant, quiescent). (various references)

Turkish

pasif (inactive, nonviolent, non-violent, quiescent), faizsiz (flat), edilgen çatı (passive voice), edilgen, dingin (calm, equal, halcyon, hushed, inert, quiet, static). (various references)

Turkmen 

passiw (r). (various references)

Ukranian 

слухняний (amenable, biddable, conformable, docile, dutiful, governable, kind, mild, obedient, obediential, obeisant, obsequious, toward, tractable), безпроцентний, покірна істота, пасивний стан, пасивний (deedless, slothful). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bị động. (various references)

Welsh

goddefol (tolerable). (various references)

passivus, supinis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "passive": passively, passiveness, passivenesses, passives. (additional references)

Words ending with "passive": impassive, nonpassive. (additional references)

Words containing "passive": impassively, impassiveness, impassivenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Passive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ipsative, mpassive, pasive, passade, passave, passibe, passiv, passivize, Pasvik, persive, pessaire, posesive, possidet, possie, possive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pavises, spavies.

-1 letter: pavise, sepias, spavie.

-2 letters: apses, apsis, aspis, paise, pases, passe, paves, pavis, saves, sepia, sipes, spaes, spies, spivs, vases, visas, vises.

-3 letters: apes, apse, asps, aves, pase, pass, pave, peas, pias, pies, piss, psis, saps, save, seas, seis, sipe, sips, spae, spas, spiv, vase, vies, visa, vise.

-4 letters: ais, ape, asp, ass, ave, ess, pas, pea, pes, pia, pie, pis, psi, sae, sap, sea, sei, sip, sis, spa, vas, via, vie, vis.

-5 letters: ae, ai, as, es, is, pa, pe, pi, si.

+1 letter: parvises, passives, pavisers.

+2 letters: impassive, passivate, passively, tipstaves, vapidness, vaporises.

+3 letters: assumptive, nonpassive, passivated, passivates, persuasive, pervasions, pikestaves, privatises, vespiaries.

+4 letters: appositives, disapproves, dissipative, impassively, overpassing, overpraises, passiveness, passivities, privateness, vapidnesses, vasopressin.

+5 letters: adaptiveness, diapositives, disapprovers, overemphasis, parvoviruses, persuasively, superlatives, supermassive, unpersuasive, vaporishness, vasopressins.

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