Bị động, thụ động

to remain passive

ở trong thế bị động

Tiêu cực, thờ ơ

passive resistance

sự kháng cự tiêu cực

(ngữ pháp) thuộc thể bị động, dạng bị động

passive voice

thể bị động (ngữ pháp)

Không phải trả lãi (nợ)

passive debt

nợ không phải trả lãi

(ngữ pháp) dạng bị động, thể bị động (như) passive voice

Inactive, non-aggressive, inert, motionless,unresponsive, quiet, calm, tranquil, serene, placid, still,idle, unmoving, unmoved, impassive, untouched, cool,indifferent, phlegmatic, uninterested, uninvolved,dispassionate, apathetic, lifeless, listless, quiescent,unperturbed, unaffected, imperturbable, unshaken, Colloqlaid-back, out of it: The comic was unable to get a reactionfrom the passive audience.

Submissive, repressed,deferential, yielding, compliant, complaisant, receptive,flexible, malleable, pliable, tractable, docile, subdued,sheepish, ovine, lamblike, cow-like, bovine, tame, gentle, meek,patient, unresisting, unassertive, forbearing, tolerant,resigned, long-suffering, Colloq US excuse-me-for-living:People tend to bully those of a more passive nature.

Unexpressed, tacit, unrevealed, undisclosed, implicit,unasserted: We can no longer take a passive position regardingcrime. Your passive support, while welcome, is not as effectiveas active campaigning.

Suffering action; acted upon.

Offering no opposition;submissive.

A not active; inert. b (of a metal) abnormallyunreactive.

Gram. designating the voice in which the subjectundergoes the action of the verb (e.g. in they were killed).

(of a debt) incurring no interest payment.

Compliancewith commands irrespective of their nature. passive resistancea non-violent refusal to cooperate. passive smoking theinvoluntary inhaling, esp. by a non-smoker, of smoke fromothers' cigarettes etc.

Passively adv. passiveness n.passivity n. [ME f. OF passif -ive or L passivus (as PASSION)]