Thesaurus
passive
Synonyms and Antonyms of passive
receiving or enduring without offering resistance the union rank and file were surprisingly passive about the givebacks in the new labor contract Synonyms of passive acquiescent, nonresistant, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, yielding Words Related to passive forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining; agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing; obeisant, submissive, surrendering; amiable, obliging; slavish, subservient; disciplined, governable, manageable; apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive Near Antonyms of passive defiant; contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward; balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded; headstrong, willful (or wilful); indomitable; undisciplined, unmanageable; dissident, nonconformist Antonyms of passive protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding
Read the Latest from M-W
Learn More about passive
-
See words that rhyme with passive Dictionary: Definition of passive Medical Dictionary: Definition of passive Spanish Central: Translation of passive Nglish: Translation of passive for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of passive for Arabic speakers
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up passive? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
