1. passive - Noun
2. passive - Adjective
3. passive - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. Robin Morgan
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. Claude Bernard
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. William Blake
Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. Merton Miller
It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat. Traditional Proverb