Entry Word: passive

Function: adjective

Meaning: receiving or enduring without offering resistance <the student body was surprisingly passive about having recess shortened>

Synonyms acquiescent, nonresistant, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, unresisting, yielding

Related Words forbearing, long-suffering, patient, uncomplaining; agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, subordinate, tractable, willing; submissive, surrendering; amiable, obliging; slavish, subservient; disciplined, governable, manageable; apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive

Near Antonyms defiant; contrary, disobedient, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly; balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded; headstrong, willful (or wilful); indomitable; undisciplined, unmanageable; dissident, nonconformist

Antonyms protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding