Exact Match:
- passive
- lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith
- expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences"
- peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"
Synonyms:
- Laodicean,
- Olympian,
- abeyant,
- abject,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- acquiescent,
- active,
- active voice,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjusting,
- agreeable,
- aloof,
- amenable,
- apathetic,
- asleep,
- assenting,
- bearing,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blank,
- blankminded,
- blase,
- bovine,
- calm,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- centrist,
- comatose,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- consenting,
- contemplative,
- cool,
- dead,
- deferential,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- do-nothing,
- docile,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- dull,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- enduring,
- even,
- fatuous,
- fifty-fifty,
- flat,
- flexible,
- forbearing,
- foul,
- gentle,
- groggy,
- half-and-half,
- heartless,
- heavy,
- hebetudinous,
- hopeless,
- humble,
- idle,
- immobile,
- impartial,
- impassive,
- imperturbable,
- implicit,
- in a stupor,
- in abeyance,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- inane,
- incogitant,
- independent,
- indifferent,
- inert,
- insouciant,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- lamblike,
- languid,
- languorous,
- latent,
- leaden,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- listless,
- logy,
- long-suffering,
- malleable,
- medio-passive,
- meditative,
- meek,
- middle,
- middle voice,
- midway,
- moderate,
- motionless,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- nirvanic,
- nonaligned,
- nonchalant,
- noncommitted,
- nondissenting,
- nonpartisan,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nonviolent,
- numb,
- numbed,
- obedient,
- oblivious,
- on the fence,
- out of it,
- ovine,
- paralytic,
- paralyzed,
- passive voice,
- patient,
- phlegmatic,
- placid,
- pliable,
- pluckless,
- procrastinating,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- quietist,
- quietistic,
- receptive,
- reconciled,
- reflexive,
- relaxed,
- repressed,
- resigned,
- sedentary,
- serene,
- servile,
- sheepish,
- slack,
- sleeping,
- sleepy,
- sluggish,
- slumbering,
- smoldering,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- standing,
- standpat,
- static,
- stationary,
- still,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- stupefied,
- subdued,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- supine,
- suspended,
- tacit,
- tame,
- third-force,
- third-world,
- thoughtfree,
- thoughtless,
- tolerant,
- torpid,
- tractable,
- tranquil,
- unaffected,
- unaroused,
- unassertive,
- uncaring,
- uncommitted,
- uncomplaining,
- unconcerned,
- undisclosed,
- unexpressed,
- unideaed,
- unintellectual,
- uninterested,
- uninvolved,
- unmoved,
- unmoving,
- unoccupied,
- unperturbed,
- unreasoning,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- unresponsive,
- unrevealed,
- unshaken,
- unthinking,
- untouched,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- voice,
- withdrawn,
- yielding