Synonym: compliant, docile, dormant, gentle, inactive, mild, submissive, yielding. Antonym: active. Similar words: massive, passion, recessive, excessive, aggressive, regressive, impressive, progressive. Meaning: ['pæsɪv] 
n. 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. adj. 1. lacking in energy or will 2. peacefully resistant in response to injustice 3. expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb.
n. 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. adj. 1. lacking in energy or will 2. peacefully resistant in response to injustice 3. expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb. 
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31. The government has belatedly recognized the danger to health of passive smoking.
32. The phrase 'innocent women and children' is a way of infantilizing women, making them seem passive and helpless.
33. Men have always played an active part in leading worship while women have been confined to more passive roles.
34. The study aims to assess the effects of passive smoking on the non-smoking population.
35. They made it clear that they would only exercise passive resistance in the event of a military takeover.
36. Mass culture turns audiences into passive consumers,[http://sentencedict.com/passive.html] their participation limited to the choice between buying and not buying.
37. Can you play the piano? It is also used with verbs of seeing, noticing, etc.:I can hear someone calling, and with passive infinitives:The video can be rented from your local store.
38. This pattern is only used in the passive. It is feared he may have been kidnapped.
39. 'Catrin told me' is an active sentence, and 'I was told by Catrin' is passive.
40. 'He was released from prison, ' is a passive sentence.
41. In his fantasies, women became passive and sometimes even willing victims.
42. The heroine plays an essentially passive role in the drama.
43. She hates playing the sweet, passive women that audiences identify her with.
44. This school is too awful to deserve passive acceptance.
45. They committed 18 turnovers against a passive defense.
46. Passive harassment became more and more active.
47. Passive smoking has come to the fore.
48. And beware of the passive fitness syndrome.
49. Money loves hardworking, responsible and enterprising people. Money dislikes lazy, irresponsible and passive people. Dr T.P.Chia 
50. However, the railways are not passive recipients of such political pressure, but political actors and manipulators in their own right.
51. He is hapless, passive and maybe just a wee bit smug.
52. I appeared twice like an ink blot on a folded sheet of paper: a passive, meaningless blur.
53. Elders are not passive objects merely conditioned by stimuli from society or their body.
54. The passive smoking issue holds enormous fears for the tobacco industry.
55. Why review articles on the health effects of passive smoking reach different conclusions.
56. The extremely rare use of the bare infinitive with the passive of perceptual verbs adds further proof that this is the case.
57. Elected governments and administrative elites are passive functionaries who simply facilitate the bargains struck by the functional elites.
58. Specialist medical evidence in the case showed that he had developed lung cancer as a result of active and passive smoking.
59. An individual who is passive, utterly apathetic and withdrawn from community life is no true citizen.
60. The second, 1 Cor 6: 9-11, speaks about both the active and the passive participants in homosexual activity.
More similar words: massive, passion, recessive, excessive, aggressive, regressive, impressive, progressive, pass, pass on, pass by, pass away, pass out, passage, passport, encompass, passenger, pass through, assign, assist, pervasive, derisive, effusive, offensive, classic, exclusive, expensive, persuasive, extensive, defensive.