passive Definition
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passive
adj
- 1. Lacking positive or assertive qualities; submissive.
- Thesaurus: compliant, docile, submissive, receptive, influenced, patient, resigned, enduring, docile, reactive, forbearing, quiet; Antonym: active, aggressive.
- Thesaurus: motionless, inert, inactive, latent, lifeless, indolent; Antonym: vigorous.
- Denoting or relating to a verbal construction which in English consists of be and the past participle (see under participle), which carries a meaning in which the subject undergoes, rather than performs, the action of the verb, such as ‘the letter' in The letter was written by John. Compare active;
- Denoting or relating to the verb in such a construction.
- 1. The form or forms that a passive verb takes.
- Form: passive voice (also)
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