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General (32 matching dictionaries)

1. passive: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. passive, the passive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. passive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. passive: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. passive: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. passive, the passive: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Passive, passive: Wordnik [home, info]
8. passive, the passive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. passive: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. passive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. passive: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
12. passive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
13. passive: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
14. passive: Dictionary.com [home, info]
15. passive (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
16. passive: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
17. passive: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
18. Passive (song), Passive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. Passive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
20. passive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
21. passive: Rhymezone [home, info]
22. passive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
23. passive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
24. passive: Free Dictionary [home, info]
25. passive: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
26. passive: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
27. passive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
28. passive: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
29. passive: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

30. PASSIVE: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
31. Passive: Lexicon of Linguistics [home, info]

Business (10 matching dictionaries)

32. Passive: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
33. passive: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
34. passive: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
35. passive: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
36. passive: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
37. Passive: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info]
38. PASSIVE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
39. passive: Legal dictionary [home, info]
40. Passive: Financial dictionary [home, info]
41. passive: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

42. passive: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

43. passive: online medical dictionary [home, info]
44. Passive: National MCH Center for Child Death Review [home, info]
45. passive: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

46. passive: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

47. Passive: Dan's Poker [home, info]

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)

48. passive: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary [home, info]
49. Passive: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering [home, info]
50. Passive: Glossary of video terms [home, info]
51. PASSIVE: Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon [home, info]
52. Passive: Sweetwater Music [home, info]

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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") ▸ Also see passivity ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to passive ▸ Usage examples for passive ▸ Idioms related to passive (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing passive ▸ Popular nouns described by passive ▸ Words that often appear near passive ▸ Rhymes of passive ▸ Invented words related to passive