passive
被动的,被动,被动式,被动型
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Definitions
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- : not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- : not participating readily or actively; inactive: a passive member of a committee.
- : not involving visible reaction or active participation: to play a passive role.
- : inert or quiescent.
- : influenced, acted upon, or affected by some external force, cause, or agency; being the object of action rather than causing action.
- : receiving or characterized by the reception of impressions or influences from external sources.
- : produced or caused by an external agency.
- : receiving, enduring, or submitting without resistance: a passive hypnotic subject.
- : Grammar. noting a voice in the inflection of the verb in some languages which is used to indicate that the subject undergoes the action of the verb. Latin portātur, “he, she, or it is carried,” is in the passive voice.noting or pertaining to a construction similar to this in meaning, as English He is carried.
- : Chemistry. inactive, especially under conditions in which chemical activity is to be expected.
- : Metallurgy. treated so as to impart impassivity.
- : Medicine/Medical. of or relating to certain unhealthy but dormant conditions; inactive, as opposed to active or spontaneous.
- : Telecommunications. designed to relay signals without electronic devices: a passive communications satellite.
- : accumulating and distributing solar heat without the aid of machinery.
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Grammar.
- : the passive voice.
- : a passive form or construction.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
For marketers, this means an opportunity to sell to a group of prospects who aren’t just passive readers or random social media users but active listeners who are willing to end the day having learned and encountered something new.
More passive screen time was linked to worse outcomes in health and school achievement, the researchers found, compared with the other categories.
If the situation turns another way, you might find yourself passive in the face of great evil, unsure what to make of it.
As others have pointed out, for example, the term “officer-involved shooting” is a passive phrasing that deemphasizes police officers’ use of deadly force, obscuring their role in state violence.
It’s not surprising that his therapist says Charlie engages in “passive suicidal behavior” or that Charlie’s love life sucks.
If we want to prevent others from your fate, we need to stop being so passive on these issues.
In a rather passive aggressive letter, the House Minority Leader wrote.
These “smart benches” can do more than simply serve as passive producers of electricity.
It turned Web surfers into passive consumers of published content.
More and more, Obama seems like a passive observer of events who dismisses criticism as superficial.
Passive hyperemia occurs most commonly in diseases of the heart and liver and in pregnancy.
In conversation their minds are apt to remain in a recipient passive state.
A purely passive defence is not possible for us; it implies losing ground by degrees—and we have not a yard to lose.
Whatever his secret care might have been, it was now passive; he was a general favourite, and courted in society.
And we shall not go there, to be idle—passive spectators to an invasion of South American rights.