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One entry found for
passive
.
Entry Word:
passive
Function:
adjective
Text: 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