Definition: Meaning of, passive in English to English dictionary.
Pronunciation:/ ˈpasɪv /
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someone who is passive tends to accept things that happen to them or things that people say to them, without taking any action [↪ impassive]
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technical a passive verb or sentence has as its subject the person or thing to which an action is done, as in 'His father was killed in a car accident.'
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the passivetechnical the passive form of a verb, for example 'was destroyed' in the sentence 'The building was destroyed during the war.'
as by injection of antiserumas through the placenta to an unborn child an impermanent form of acquired immunity in which antibodies against a disease are acquired naturally or artificially
a type of LCD display used for some portable computers; parallel wires run both vertically and horizontally and pixels are turned on when the wires intersecting at that pixel are both energized