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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61. For decades it has cowed public employees, left them docile, passive, and bitter.
62. Analytical reading of history texts should never permit a passive acceptance of other people's interpretations of the past.
63. But Amy was neither a passive heiress nor a passive wife.
64. The three categories of passive,[www.Sentencedict.com] aggressive and assertive behaviour are a useful way of differentiating and describing interpersonal communication styles.
65. The scent of dense green growth, irrigation mist, massive trees not butchered for their fodder, fattened, passive cattle.
66. But, serious accidents can happen along the way when you use the passive voice.
67. This hypothesis requires further analysis of the passive voice before it can be considered confirmed however.
68. Popular culture instead reproduced essentially passive individuals as labour power for monopoly capitalism.
69. The female adopts a more passive role in conception than the male, and physiologically she has less to do.
70. You can become a passive victim of situations that are far beyond your control.
71. Here the passive enables the speaker to conceal the identity of the informant.
72. A religious insight like Julian's shows that a passive, unquestioning acceptance of received dogma is not enough.
73. It implies a less passive consumer than the market research model with the emphasis on market preferences and consumers' rights.
74. It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins.
75. And without me the school might sink into torpor. Passive acceptance would be the order of the day.
76. This scheme launched enterprises with dramatic results, instead of doling out aid to passive clients.
77. The passive role of television viewers simply heightens its effect.
78. This altered Romeo strikes us as oddly passive after Juliet is exiled for killing his cousin Tybalt in a street brawl.
79. That is, he or she is viewed as a passive and helpless victim of ruling class, media and state propaganda.
80. Edward was far more, however, than a mere passive conduit for funds.
81. Men can be passive without grave psychological damage only if the women are passive also.
82. Rich, well connected Vanessa exudes good breeding, but her passive veneer conceals a passionate nature.
83. The West End and even cinema audiences were tiny compared to the huge passive mass of armchair viewers.
84. Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin. Bill Maher 
85. In a literary essay, however, you should be cautious about leaving out the actor in a passive sentence.
86. More recent investigations with rat jejunal brush border membrane vesicles, however, have found evidence only for passive transport.
87. Aggressive people become more aggressive around passive people, Ruth said.
88. Thus results from passive avoidance and imprinting might begin to converge, which should be good news for both labs.
89. No longer passive recipients of instruction, pupils are encouraged to be active collaborators in the learning process.
90. The directly concerned populations are invariably viewed as passive recipients of plans.
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.