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We found 53 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word passive: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "passive" is defined. General (30 matching dictionaries) passive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] passive: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] passive: Vocabulary.com [home, info] passive, the passive: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] passive: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Passive, passive: Wordnik [home, info] passive, the passive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Passive: Wiktionary [home, info] passive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] passive: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info] passive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] passive: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] passive: Dictionary.com [home, info] passive (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] passive: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] passive: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Passive (disambiguation), Passive (song), Passive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Passive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] passive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] passive: Rhymezone [home, info] passive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] passive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] passive: Free Dictionary [home, info] passive: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info] passive: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] passive: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] passive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] passive: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Art (2 matching dictionaries) PASSIVE: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info] Passive: Lexicon of Linguistics [home, info] Business (10 matching dictionaries) Passive: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info] passive: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info] passive: Law.com Dictionary [home, info] passive: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info] passive: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info] Passive: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info] PASSIVE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info] passive: Legal dictionary [home, info] Passive: Financial dictionary [home, info] passive: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) passive: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (3 matching dictionaries) passive: online medical dictionary [home, info] Passive: National MCH Center for Child Death Review [home, info] passive: Medical dictionary [home, info] Slang (1 matching dictionary) passive: Urban Dictionary [home, info] Sports (1 matching dictionary) Passive: Dan's Poker [home, info] Tech (5 matching dictionaries) passive: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary [home, info] Passive: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering [home, info] Passive: Glossary of video terms [home, info] PASSIVE: Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon [home, info] Passive: Sweetwater Music [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (passive) ▸ noun:  the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb ("`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice") ▸ adjective:  peacefully resistant in response to injustice ("Passive resistance") ▸ adjective:  lacking in energy or will ("Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself- George Meredith") ▸ adjective:  expressing thatthe subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb ("Academics seem to favor passive sentences") ▸ Word origin