passive
- Adjective. Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
- Adjective. Taking no action.
- Adjective. (grammar) Being in the passive voice.
- Adjective. (context, psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
- Adjective. (finance) Not participating in management.
- Noun. (uncountable, grammar) The passive voice of verbs.
- Noun. (countable, grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.
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