Word Meaning

Meaning of "passive" and the crossword clue

- Inactive
- Opposite of proactive
- Unresisting
- While away, I’ve become docile
- 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.