1 accepting what happens or what people do without trying to change anything or oppose them:
He played a passive role in the relationship. * a passive observer of events * She wore a passive expression on her face as if she didn't care what happened.
2 (grammar) connected with the form of a verb used when the subject is affected by the action of the verb as in He was bitten by a dog.:
a passive sentence
compareACTIVE
passively adverb
noun (also passive voice) [sing.] (grammar) the form of a verb used when the subject is affected by the action of the verb
compareACTIVE
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for passive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is passive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, passive is tagged as adjective.
Does passive appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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