Passive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PASSIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the passive mood of a verb
• a passive form of a verb.
• the passive voice.
• 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
• passive form of a verb
ADJECTIVE:
• not active
• accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance
• denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them).
• (of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force
• (of radar or a satellite) receiving or reflecting radiation from a transmitter or target rather than generating its own signal
• (of a heating system) making use of incident sunlight as an energy source
• (of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide.
• not playing an active part
• Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
• Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
• Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
• Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
• lacking in energy or will
• peacefully resistant in response to injustice
• expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a verb form

Words related to PASSIVE

passively17 passives13 passivity17

Words that contain PASSIVE

passives13 impassive16 passively17 nonpassive15 impassively21 passiveness16 nonpassives16 impassiveness20 passivenesses18 impassivenesses22

How to use PASSIVE in a sentence

• This last turn of matters justified in some measure the system of passive resistance.
• Their passive heroism was in many instances more admirable than that of the men of war, who were able to return blow for blow.
• That the senses, in this relation, are merely passive, admits of no question, from the obvious difference between the idea and the objects.
• A complete silence was preserved, and all minds gradually sank into a quiet, passive expectancy.
• The mental faculties and the moral perceptions lie down together in the same passive sleep.
• He wanted very much to be able to take a passive instead of an active interest in life, and this a few hundreds of pounds a year in addition to his savings would enable him to do.
• When the conclusion arrives, the old King has for a long while been passive.
• Suppose that I sat in an entirely passive position and gazed at a spot on an otherwise blank piece of paper before me.
• These in their turn share the same fate, the King and country remaining passive spectators of the struggles between the opposing factions.
• The sustained attention of the genius, sticking to his subject for hours together, is for the most part of the passive sort.
• My most intimate friends can testify that I was perfectly passive.
• We suffered ourselves, as you so well expressed it, to be passive subjects of public discussion.
• In the first act the anchors are passive, but they begin to take an active share in the forward movement when the body is contracted again.
• At last the passive astonishment was broken by a slave-owner named Peel.
• She did not sob, and beg and pray beyond a few minutes, but she opposed to the tyrannical mandate that disposed of her so summarily the dead weight of passive resistance.
• Now it is manifest that God planted in human nature not only a passive, but an active intellect.
• For he has there preserved the famous speech of the bishop of Carlisle, which contains, in the most express terms, the doctrine of passive obedience.
• Resistance, even of this passive sort, raised the savage in him.
• If we but sit passive, and leave their fate to time, they will die away in discouragement and despair.
• The greater part of French citizens were thereby declared to have only passive, not active rights, and were excluded from the franchise.
• Cross symbolized the active and passive power of production, 503-u.
• Dogma of widespread application was the division of the First Cause into the Active and Passive, 653-l.
• Egg symbolizes the double power, the active and the passive, 655-l.
• Universal Soul idea sprung from doctrine of the Active and Passive, 661-m.
• But the cousins and their respectability are of the passive order, whereas to manage Aunt Jane demands aggressive and continuous action.
• His passive, silent ways, so alien to his natural self and temperament, were at last breaking down.
• But it was not until his hitherto quiet and passive love took this first step of action that it fully declared itself.
• Obviously, in this view of marriage, sexual activity was regarded as an exclusively masculine function, in the exercise of which women had merely a passive part to play.

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