Passive vs. Impassive
Passiveadjective
Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
Passiveadjective
Taking no action.
Passiveadjective
(grammar) Being in the passive voice.
Passiveadjective
(psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
Passiveadjective
(finance) Not participating in management.
Passiveadjective
(aviation) Without motive power.
Passivenoun
The passive voice of verbs.
Passivenoun
A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.
Passiveadjective
Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
Passiveadjective
Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
Passiveadjective
Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
Passiveadjective
Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
Passivenoun
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;
Passiveadjective
lacking in energy or will;
Passiveadjective
peacefully resistant in response to injustice;
Passiveadjective
expressing thatthe subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb;
Passiveadjective
accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance
Passiveadjective
denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them).
Passiveadjective
(of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force
Passiveadjective
(of radar or a satellite) receiving or reflecting radiation from a transmitter or target rather than generating its own signal
Passiveadjective
(of a heating system) making use of incident sunlight as an energy source
Passiveadjective
(of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide.
Passivenoun
a passive form of a verb.
Passivenoun
the passive voice.
Impassiveadjective
Having, or revealing, no emotion.
Impassiveadjective
Still or motionless.
Impassiveadjective
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.
Impassiveadjective
having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited;
Impassiveadjective
deliberately impassive in manner;
Impassiveadjective
not feeling or showing emotion
