Definition for Passive:

• Suffering without resisting; not acting but acted upon; as, a passive disposition; submissive; in grammar, indicating that form of the transitive verb which asserts that the subject is acted upon.

Synonyms for Passive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • peaceful.
  •compliant (adjective)
  • submissive.
  •henpecked (adjective)
  • unassertive.
  •inactive (adjective)
  • somnolent,
  • quiescent,
  • supine,
  • indolent.
  •indifferent (adjective)
  • easygoing,
  • impartial,
  • neutral,
  • disinterested,
  • uncaring,
  • Half-hearted,
  • dispassionate,
  • uninterested,
  • apathetic,
  • cool,
  • indifferent,
  • nonchalant,
  • lukewarm,
  • unconcerned,
  • insouciant,
  • unwilling,
  • detached,
  • perfunctory,
  • cold.
  •inert (adjective)
  • immobile,
  • inanimate,
  • languid,
  • comatose,
  • lifeless,
  • sedentary,
  • vegetative,
  • motionless,
  • sluggish,
  • stationary,
  • Reposing,
  • idle,
  • insensible,
  • unreactive,
  • inert,
  • paralytic,
  • still,
  • languorous,
  • catatonic.
  •insensitive (adjective)
  • callous,
  • hard,
  • insensitive,
  • hard-boiled,
  • stony,
  • hardhearted,
  • blunt,
  • aloof,
  • unemotional,
  • cold-blooded,
  • hardened,
  • heartless,
  • numb,
  • unsympathetic,
  • emotionless,
  • uncompassionate,
  • ruthless,
  • unfeeling,
  • anesthetized,
  • tough,
  • objective.
  •latent (adjective)
  • implied,
  • in abeyance,
  • unrealized.
  •lifeless, inactive (adjective)
  • flat,
  • moony,
  • quiet,
  • nonviolent,
  • yielding,
  • tractable,
  • sleepy,
  • walking through it,
  • docile,
  • asleep,
  • compliant,
  • unflappable,
  • forbearing,
  • long-suffering,
  • bearing,
  • enduring,
  • going through motions,
  • laid-back,
  • uninvolved,
  • acquiescent.
  •nonviolent (adjective)
  • non-violent,
  • peaceable.
  •passive (adjective)
  • calm,
  • complaisant,
  • placid.

• n.

  •
  • blank,
  • Influenced,
  • receptive,
  • controlled,
  • affected.
  •
  • compound,
  • Frequentative,
  • conditional,
  • complex,
  • grammatical,
  • deictic,
  • inflected,
  • declarative.
  •
  • resist,
  • resigned.
  •linkdef (noun)
  • passive voice.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • henpecked,
  • Hard-hearted,
  • verb,
  • undemonstrative,
  • poker-faced,
  • restrained,
  • inured,
  • starchy,
  • patient,
  • impassive,
  • unmoved,
  • cavalier,
  • blankly.
  •
  • feminine,
  • vegetable,
  • repressed,
  • Hard-headed,
  • flatly,
  • repression,
  • soulless,
  • restraint,
  • glassy,
  • evenly.
  •
  • robotic,
  • empty.
  •
  • distant.
  •
  • reserve.
  •idle
  • unoccupied,
  • do-nothing.
  •meek
  • humble.
  •morose
  • saturnine.
  •Other relevant words:
  • contemplative,
  • slow-footed,
  • inoffensive,
  • uncommitted,
  • adaptable,
  • budding,
  • bland,
  • future,
  • Pococurante,
  • biddable,
  • groggy,
  • temperate,
  • kind,
  • tolerant,
  • observant,
  • leaden,
  • amiable,
  • even,
  • pacific,
  • underactive,
  • dead,
  • paralyzed,
  • game,
  • unrevealed,
  • unaffected,
  • gentle,
  • well-disposed,
  • self-effacing,
  • dull,
  • vacant,
  • soft,
  • fallow,
  • strikebound,
  • unperturbed,
  • vacuous,
  • extinct,
  • serene,
  • lowly,
  • timid,
  • bovine,
  • midway,
  • obedient,
  • flexible,
  • dutiful,
  • abeyant,
  • willing,
  • immobilized,
  • tranquil,
  • eager,
  • foul,
  • imperturbable,
  • mild,
  • respectful,
  • unresistant,
  • wormlike,
  • lamblike,
  • paralysed,
  • stuporous,
  • Tolerating,
  • unshaken,
  • undisclosed,
  • fatuous,
  • Compliable,
  • Quietistic,
  • sheeplike,
  • relaxed,
  • undone,
  • third-world,
  • middle,
  • good-natured,
  • slow-paced,
  • silent,
  • subdued,
  • complying,
  • non-aggressive,
  • unassuming,
  • zealous,
  • possible,
  • blase,
  • forgiving,
  • Adapting,
  • unthinking,
  • kindly,
  • heavy,
  • pliant,
  • hidden,
  • compassionate,
  • passively,
  • untouched,
  • conformable,
  • expressionless,
  • unmoving,
  • inactivity,
  • Numbed,
  • nonaligned,
  • wormy,
  • affable,
  • smoldering,
  • accommodating,
  • middle voice,
  • enthusiastic,
  • indulgent,
  • unaroused,
  • Unasserted,
  • content,
  • desensitized,
  • developing,
  • benumbed,
  • spiritless,
  • ready,
  • stirred,
  • modest,
  • abject,
  • tame,
  • slow-going,
  • unintellectual,
  • logy,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • subservient,
  • suspended,
  • stand pat,
  • stupefied,
  • neuter,
  • dopey,
  • diplomatic,
  • concealed,
  • empty-headed,
  • Procrastinating,
  • otiose,
  • soporific,
  • Pluckless,
  • sleeping,
  • meditative,
  • nonoperational,
  • unreasoning,
  • likely,
  • Unexerted,
  • agreeable,
  • oblivious,
  • frigid,
  • quietist,
  • unexpressed,
  • passiveness,
  • desensitised,
  • apathy,
  • Receiving,
  • consenting,
  • in suspense,
  • nirvanic,
  • amenable,
  • Ovine,
  • ebastened,
  • assenting,
  • uninfluential,
  • pliable,
  • Adjusting,
  • unaggressive,
  • happy,
  • deferential,
  • sheepish,
  • hands-off,
  • hopeless,
  • active voice,
  • slavish,
  • reconciled,
  • equable,
  • laissez faire,
  • duteous,
  • mindless,
  • standpat,
  • tacit,
  • inoperative,
  • inertia,
  • manageable,
  • manipulable,
  • resistless,
  • impotent,
  • merciful,
  • unanimated,
  • suffering,
  • centrist,
  • cataleptic,
  • avid,
  • stoical,
  • lymphatic,
  • nonpartisan,
  • imminent,
  • Stagnating,
  • covert,
  • Resting,
  • out of work,
  • adaptive,
  • implicit,
  • moderate,
  • potential,
  • embryonic,
  • on the fence,
  • independent,
  • delighted,
  • fifty-fifty,
  • stoic,
  • undeveloped,
  • unapproachable,
  • hebetudinous,
  • philosophical,
  • inane,
  • thoughtless,
  • conciliatory,
  • self-possessed,
  • blah,
  • prone,
  • half-and-half,
  • unexpressive,
  • lenient,
  • Restrainable,
  • unemployed,
  • accepting,
  • not done,
  • phlegmatical,
  • passivity,
  • Unideaed,
  • mellow,
  • standing,
  • pleased,
  • reflexive,
  • Incogitant,
  • withdrawn,
  • malleable.

Paraphrases for Passive:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    impassive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    inactive, inert, static, liabilities, receptive, dormant, idle, silent, active, outward.
  • Proper noun, singular
    liabilities, negative.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    outward.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    negative.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    passivity, negative.

Antonyms for Passive:

• adj.

  • all
    active.
  • lifeless, inactive
    dynamic, concerned, caring, agitated, interested, lively, impatient.
  • Other antonyms:
    disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, perverse, unmanageable, headstrong, contumacious, protesting, wayward, untoward, froward, insurgent, defiant, dissident, ungovernable, contrary, undisciplined, wrongheaded, nonconformist, uncontrollable, mutinous, rebellious, willful, indomitable, refractory, unyielding, Incompliant, resistant.

• n.

  • linkdef
    active voice.

Hyponym for Passive:

• n.

  • linkdef
    voice.