What is another word for passive?
785 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pˈasɪv], [ pˈasɪv], [ p_ˈa_s_ɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for passive:
- all (adjective)
- apathetic (adjective)
- compliant (adjective)
- dormant (adjective)
- frigid (adjective)
- half-hearted (adjective)
- halfhearted (adjective)
- henpecked (adjective)
- idle (adjective)
- inactive (adjective)
- incurious (adjective)
- indifferent (adjective)
- inert (adjective)
- insensitive (adjective)
- lackadaisical (adjective)
- latent (adjective)
- lazy (adjective)
- lethargic (adjective)
- lifeless (adjective)
- lifeless, inactive (adjective)
- listless (adjective)
- meek (adjective)
- nonviolent (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- passionless (adjective)
- passive (adjective)
- phlegmatic (adjective)
- powerless (adjective)
- quiescent (adjective)
- servile (adjective)
- slack (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- slow-footed (adjective)
- slow-going (adjective)
- slow-paced (adjective)
- static (adjective)
- stolid (adjective)
- submissive (adjective)
- torpid (adjective)
- unresponsive (adjective)
- yielding (adjective)
- linkdef (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- idle
- meek
- morose
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Passive:
adj.
• all (adjective) • apathetic (adjective)- un-concerned,
- un-interested,
- in-sensible,
- stoic,
- draggiest,
- couldnt care less,
- un emotional,
- what hell,
- in-different,
- draggier,
- wimpier,
- un-moved,
- un concerned,
- un feeling,
- don't give damn,
- dont give damn,
- un-emotional,
- un-feeling,
- dont give a damn,
- un touched,
- un moved,
- un interested,
- laidback,
- uninterested,
- what the hell,
- in different,
- wimpiest,
- in sensible,
- un-touched.
- more hibernating,
- most slumbering,
- most hibernating,
- on the shelf,
- suspended,
- most sidelined,
- in-operative,
- pre-patent,
- most smoldering,
- most prepatent,
- more smoldering,
- more sidelined,
- on shelf,
- pre patent,
- more slumbering,
- in operative,
- out action,
- more prepatent.
- cold hearted,
- most cold-shoulder,
- more cold-shoulder,
- un approachable,
- more unloving,
- forbidding,
- most coldshoulder,
- most cold shoulder,
- un bending,
- more coldshoulder,
- un-approachable,
- more cold shoulder,
- unapproachable,
- un-loving,
- un-bending,
- un loving,
- most unloving.
- subjected to nagging,
- led by the nose,
- unassertive,
- in fear of one's wife,
- under one's thumb,
- under thumb,
- wife-ridden.
- jobless,
- on the bench,
- un-employed,
- un used,
- idler,
- more laid off,
- Resting,
- most laid off,
- most mothballed.
- somnolent,
- in holding pattern,
- supine,
- low key,
- out of service,
- mothballed,
- do nothing,
- on hold,
- quiescent,
- indolent.
- easygoing,
- uncaring,
- insouciant,
- cool,
- neutral,
- cold,
- unwilling,
- perfunctory,
- detached,
- lukewarm,
- indifferent,
- impartial,
- disinterested,
- unconcerned,
- nonchalant,
- dispassionate,
- apathetic.
- languid,
- paralytic,
- sluggard,
- sedentary,
- Reposing,
- stationary,
- sluggish,
- unreactive,
- inert,
- comatose,
- inanimate,
- still,
- languorous,
- motionless,
- immobile,
- insensible,
- idle,
- lifeless,
- vegetative,
- catatonic.
- callous,
- hard,
- insensitive,
- hard-boiled,
- stony,
- hardhearted,
- blunt,
- aloof,
- unemotional,
- cold-blooded,
- hardened,
- heartless,
- numb,
- unsympathetic,
- emotionless,
- uncompassionate,
- ruthless,
- unfeeling,
- anesthetized,
- tough,
- objective.
- dis-interested,
- most energyless,
- in attentive,
- dis interested,
- more energyless,
- more daydreaming,
- most daydreaming,
- in-attentive.
- more dallying,
- asleep job,
- more slow moving,
- more slowmoving,
- more unready,
- un persevering,
- most laggard,
- more laggard,
- snooziest,
- more procrastinating,
- most slowmoving,
- slowmoving,
- most dallying,
- most unready,
- more unenergetic,
- out it,
- most unindustrious,
- laggard,
- snoozier,
- unpersevering,
- most unenergetic,
- un energetic,
- un-persevering,
- most procrastinating,
- most slow-moving,
- more unindustrious,
- neglectful,
- slow moving,
- un-ready,
- un-energetic,
- more unpersevering,
- unindustrious,
- un-industrious,
- most unpersevering,
- asleep the job,
- un ready,
- more slow-moving,
- un industrious,
- most slow moving.
- stretchy,
- most sleepyhead,
- stretchiest,
- stretchier,
- sleepyhead,
- more nebbish,
- having spring fever,
- more sleepyhead,
- most nebbish.
- prosiest,
- most zero,
- most pabulum,
- most lusterless,
- more nothing,
- more pabulum,
- in-sipid,
- more zero,
- more lusterless,
- in sipid,
- most nothing,
- prosier,
- prosy.
- compliant,
- flat,
- nonviolent,
- forbearing,
- unflappable,
- long-suffering,
- bearing,
- acquiescent,
- going through motions,
- docile,
- laid-back,
- moony,
- quiet,
- walking through it,
- enduring,
- yielding,
- tractable,
- hands off,
- asleep,
- uninvolved,
- sleepy.
- re-signed,
- un resisting,
- most longanimous,
- unassuming,
- more unresisting,
- weak-kneed,
- most weak kneed,
- un-resisting,
- more weakkneed,
- more milquetoast,
- weakkneed,
- un-assuming,
- most unresisting,
- most weak-kneed,
- long suffering,
- more longanimous,
- un assuming,
- un pretentious,
- longsuffering,
- re signed,
- wishywashy,
- most weakkneed,
- most milquetoast,
- unpretentious,
- weak kneed,
- more weak kneed,
- wishy washy,
- more weak-kneed,
- un-pretentious.
- deadlocked,
- lackadaisical,
- Mopish,
- longanimous,
- spring fever,
- comformable,
- lazy,
- coldhearted,
- ardorless,
- at rest,
- static,
- out of action,
- latent,
- at a standstill,
- draggy,
- along for the ride,
- unexcitable,
- passionless,
- powerless,
- unloving,
- matter of fact,
- lusterless,
- non-resistant,
- phlegmatic,
- slothful,
- energyless,
- slow-moving,
- torpid,
- meek,
- slow,
- Nonresisting,
- laid back,
- asleep on job,
- dormant,
- putty in hands,
- stagnant,
- sidelined,
- stolid,
- incurious,
- in firm,
- snoozy,
- slumbering,
- disenfranchised,
- out of it,
- nonresistant,
- giving-in,
- gridlocked,
- cold-shoulder,
- uncomplaining,
- halfhearted,
- out of gas,
- inactive,
- closed down,
- putty in one's hands,
- slack,
- lethargic,
- prepatent,
- wimpy,
- unenergetic,
- listless,
- servile,
- bowing down,
- unfluctuating,
- unresponsive,
- slowgoing,
- coldshoulder,
- unresisting,
- couldn't care less,
- de-activated,
- asleep on the job,
- don't give a damn,
- unready.
- de-sensitized,
- un demonstrative,
- dis-passionate,
- un-compassionate,
- most unexcitable,
- along for ride,
- un excitable,
- un compassionate,
- un-demonstrative,
- more unexcitable,
- un-involved,
- dis passionate,
- de sensitized,
- most desensitized,
- more desensitized,
- un-excitable,
- un involved.
- dis enfranchised,
- wimp,
- un-fit,
- de-pendent,
- un armed,
- most chicken,
- more etiolated,
- in-effective,
- in-effectual,
- more disenfranchised,
- in-firmest,
- in-capacitated,
- wimper,
- most disenfranchised,
- out gas,
- in effective,
- more chicken,
- in-firmer,
- de pendent,
- in capable,
- un-armed,
- in firmer,
- in effectual,
- dis-enfranchised,
- incapable,
- wimpest,
- most etiolated,
- in capacitated,
- in firmest,
- in-capable.
- more format,
- more stalled,
- most stabile,
- more unfluctuating,
- un changing,
- most format,
- more deadlocked,
- stabile,
- un-changing,
- more gridlocked,
- most deadlocked,
- most gridlocked,
- most stalled,
- un-varying,
- more stabile,
- un varying,
- standing still,
- un-fluctuating,
- at standstill,
- un fluctuating,
- most unfluctuating.
- more complying,
- more nonresisting,
- more uncomplaining,
- most giving in,
- non resisting,
- more givingin,
- givingin,
- most giving-in,
- un complaining,
- sub missive,
- more giving-in,
- more obeying,
- more comformable,
- more giving in,
- non resistant,
- non-resisting,
- most uncomplaining,
- yesser,
- most complying,
- most obeying,
- most comformable,
- most givingin,
- un-complaining,
- more nonresistant,
- most nonresistant,
- sub-missive,
- yessest,
- most nonresisting.
n.
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- blank,
- Influenced,
- receptive,
- controlled,
- affected.
Other synonyms:
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- emptiness,
- reserved,
- mildly,
- no-nonsense,
- dry-eyed,
- unmoved,
- poker-faced,
- inured,
- patient,
- Neutrally,
- hard-nosed,
- glassy-eyed,
- starchy,
- undemonstrative,
- self-controlled,
- impassive,
- blankly,
- henpecked,
- hard-bitten,
- Hard-hearted,
- cavalier,
- verb,
- unforthcoming,
- restrained.
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- flinty,
- vegetable,
- glassy,
- repressed,
- impervious,
- feminine,
- restraint,
- evenly,
- repression,
- flatly,
- soulless,
- Hard-headed.
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- distant.
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- reserve.
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- close.
- gentle,
- compassionate,
- game,
- Pluckless,
- abject,
- abeyant,
- contemplative,
- inoffensive,
- slow-going,
- dopey,
- happy,
- stuporous,
- groggy,
- stoical,
- embryonic,
- phlegmatical,
- delighted,
- expressionless,
- Procrastinating,
- passiveness,
- third-world,
- amiable,
- thoughtless,
- resistless,
- unthinking,
- likely,
- lowly,
- stirred,
- manageable,
- subdued,
- apathy,
- tacit,
- kindly,
- serene,
- reflexive,
- diplomatic,
- ebastened,
- oblivious,
- lenient,
- accommodating,
- Quietistic,
- inertia,
- in a stupor,
- sheeplike,
- fallow,
- enthusiastic,
- desensitized,
- Incogitant,
- fifty-fifty,
- adaptive,
- in suspense,
- zealous,
- implicit,
- strikebound,
- cataleptic,
- possible,
- Compliable,
- wormlike,
- agreeable,
- logy,
- on the fence,
- amenable,
- pliable,
- soft,
- moderate,
- hands-off,
- temperate,
- mild,
- Unasserted,
- neuter,
- nonpartisan,
- imperturbable,
- wormy,
- assenting,
- smoldering,
- slow-footed,
- undone,
- unexpressed,
- standing,
- benumbed,
- content,
- spiritless,
- immobilized,
- subservient,
- active voice,
- unaggressive,
- half-and-half,
- even,
- self-effacing,
- lymphatic,
- out of work,
- undisclosed,
- otiose,
- desensitised,
- blankminded,
- quietist,
- conformable,
- avid,
- flexible,
- prone,
- unanimated,
- lamblike,
- unperturbed,
- unemployed,
- future,
- Unexerted,
- meditative,
- inactivity,
- vacant,
- unintellectual,
- blase,
- sheepish,
- middle voice,
- non-aggressive,
- leaden,
- underactive,
- pliant,
- ready,
- potential,
- nirvanic,
- frigid,
- consenting,
- bland,
- inane,
- tranquil,
- respectful,
- blah,
- Ovine,
- centrist,
- paralysed,
- unaffected,
- philosophical,
- unexpressive,
- paralyzed,
- malleable,
- dull,
- stand pat,
- affable,
- pacific,
- duteous,
- biddable,
- withdrawn,
- extinct,
- standpat,
- budding,
- Adapting,
- tame,
- dead,
- pleased,
- deferential,
- unshaken,
- unreasoning,
- manipulable,
- unaroused,
- well-disposed,
- mindless,
- uncommitted,
- Unideaed,
- untouched,
- merciful,
- unresistant,
- heavy,
- mellow,
- equable,
- covert,
- dutiful,
- reconciled,
- indulgent,
- bovine,
- inoperative,
- silent,
- undeveloped,
- soporific,
- passively,
- relaxed,
- impotent,
- hidden,
- not done,
- passivity,
- adaptable,
- unrevealed,
- Pococurante,
- laissez faire,
- vacuous,
- unmoving,
- middle,
- timid,
- midway,
- concealed,
- Restrainable,
- nonoperational,
- hopeless,
- Stagnating,
- sleeping,
- slavish,
- observant,
- complying,
- self-possessed,
- accepting,
- foul,
- independent,
- hebetudinous,
- suffering,
- Receiving,
- Numbed,
- Adjusting,
- modest,
- kind,
- slow-paced,
- imminent,
- willing,
- forgiving,
- obedient,
- fatuous,
- nonaligned,
- eager,
- conciliatory,
- empty-headed,
- tolerant,
- stupefied,
- Tolerating,
- uninfluential,
- good-natured,
- developing.
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
impassive.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
liabilities, negative.
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Noun, singular or mass
outward.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Adjective
negative.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Passive:
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