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Definition of passive : 1. 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.
2. Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
3. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
4. Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.

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supine, patient, peaceable, influenced, receptive, quiet, resistless, forbearing, nonresistant, nonviolent, unresisting, resigned, latent, peaceful, affected, resist, passive voice, nonoperational, enduring

indifferent (part of speech: adjective)

impartial, uninterested, cold, insouciant, lukewarm, easygoing, unwilling, half-hearted, uncaring, neutral, perfunctory, disinterested

insensitive (part of speech: adjective)

callous, hardhearted, hardened, indifferent, hard, stony, dispassionate, insensitive, heartless, objective, uncompassionate, detached, unfeeling, ruthless, aloof, numb, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, passionless, cool, blunt, anesthetized, tough, unconcerned, nonchalant, unemotional, emotionless, apathetic, hard-boiled

passive (part of speech: adjective)

idle, acquiescent, placid, inactive, inert, submissive, calm, complaisant, yielding

inert (part of speech: adjective)

lifeless, vegetative, sedentary, motionless, static, insensible, catatonic, paralytic, languid, comatose, reposing, immobile, languorous, dormant, stagnant, stationary, still, inanimate, sluggish, listless, lethargic

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