We found 49 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 (25 matching dictionaries)
- passive: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
- passive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- passive: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- passive: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Passive: Wiktionary [home, info]
- passive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [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 (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: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [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 (8 matching dictionaries)
- Passive: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
- passive: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
- passive: Law.com Dictionary [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 (5 matching dictionaries)
- passive: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
- passive: Technical and Popular Medical Terms [home, info]
- passive: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- Passive: National MCH Center for Child Death Review [home, info]
- passive: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Science (1 matching dictionary)
- Passive: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
Sports (1 matching dictionary)
- Passive: Dan's Poker [home, info]
Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
- passive: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary [home, info]
- passive: DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [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 (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
|
|
|
