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Passive - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | passive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lifeless, inactive |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, bearing, compliant, cool, docile, enduring, flat, forbearing, idle, indifferent, inert, laid-back*, latent, long-suffering, motionless, nonviolent, patient, phlegmatic, quiescent, quiet, receptive, resigned, sleepy, static, stolid, submissive, tractable, unflappable, yielding, acquiescent, going through motions, hands off, moony, nonresistant, poker-faced*, unassertive, uninvolved, unresisting, walking through it |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | active, dynamic, lively |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | apathetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncaring, disinterested |
| Synonyms: | blah*, callous, cold, cool, could care less, couldn't care less, don't give a damn, draggy, emotionless, flat, impassive, indifferent, insensible, laid-back*, languid, moony, passive, stoic, stolid, unconcerned, unemotional, unfeeling, uninterested, unmoved, unresponsive, untouched, what the hell, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | caring, concerned, interested, responsive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dormant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive; sleeping |
| Synonyms: | asleep, comatose, down, fallow, inert, inoperative, latent, lethargic, lurking, passive, potential, quiescent, slack, sluggish, suspended, torpid, abeyant, closed down, hibernating, on the shelf, out of action, prepatent, sidelined, slumbering, smoldering |
| Antonyms: | active, lively |
| Main Entry: | halfhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, cool, impassive, indifferent, irresolute, lackluster, listless, lukewarm, neutral, passive, perfunctory, spiritless, tame, tepid, unenthusiastic, uninterested |
| Antonyms: | desirous, enthusiastic, interested, warm, whole-hearted |
| Main Entry: | inactive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not engaged in action; inert, lazy |
| Synonyms: | asleep, blah*, disengaged, do-nothing*, dormant, down, dull, idle, immobile, indolent, inoperative, jobless, latent, lax, lethargic, limp, low-key, motionless, ossified, out of commission*, out of work*, passive, quiescent, quiet, sedentary, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent, stable, static, still, torpid, unemployed, unoccupied, unused, abeyant, draggy, in holding pattern, mothballed, on hold, out of action, out of service |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, involved, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not moving; lifeless |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, dead, dormant, down, dull, idle, immobile, impassive, impotent, inactive, inanimate, indolent, languid, lazy, leaden, listless, motionless, numb, paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, powerless, quiescent, quiet, slack, sleepy, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, static, still, stolid, torpid, unmoving, unresponsive, languorous, slumberous, unreactive |
| Antonyms: | active, alive, animated, lively, mobile, moving, working |
| Main Entry: | lackadaisical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, indifferent |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, apathetic, daydreaming, disinterested, dreamy, dull, enervated, halfhearted, idle, inattentive, indolent, inert, laid-back, languid, languishing, lazy, lethargic, limp, listless, passive, romantic, sentimental, slothful, spiritless, unconcerned, energyless, faineant, incurious, languorous, moony, spring fever |
| Antonyms: | active, careful, energetic, enthusiastic, caring, hard-working |
| Main Entry: | latent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dormant, hidden |
| Synonyms: | concealed, covert, idle, immature, implied, inactive, inert, inferential, inherent, inoperative, intrinsic, invisible, involved, lurking, passive, possible, potential, quiescent, rudimentary, secret, sleeping, suspended, tacit, torpid, underdeveloped, underlying, undeveloped, unexpressed, unripe, unseen, veiled, abeyant, between the lines, contained, in abeyance, inferred, smoldering, suppressed, unexposed, unrealized, vestigial |
| Antonyms: | active, apparent, clear, live, manifest, obvious, open, public |
| Main Entry: | lazy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive, sluggish |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, careless, comatose, dilatory, drowsy, dull, idle, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, lethargic, lifeless, loafing, neglectful, passive, remiss, shiftless, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, somnolent, supine, tardy, tired, torpid, trifling, unconcerned, weary, asleep on the job, dallying, flagging, lagging, languorous, out of it, procrastinating, slow-moving, snoozy, unenergetic, unindustrious, unpersevering, unready |
| Antonyms: | active, diligent, energetic, industrious, lively, hard-working |
| Main Entry: | lethargic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lazy, sluggish |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah*, comatose, debilitated, dilatory, dopey, dormant, drowsy, dull, enervated, heavy, idle, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, laid-back*, languid, listless, passive, phlegmatic, sleepy, slothful, slow, somnolent, spiritless, stolid, stupefied, supine, torpid, draggy, having spring fever, languorous, moony, nebbish, out of it, sleepyhead, slumberous, snoozy, stretchy, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, energetic, lively, vital, vivacious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | listless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spiritless, without energy |
| Synonyms: | absent, abstracted, apathetic, blah*, bored, careless, dormant, dreamy, drowsy, dull, easygoing, enervated, faint, heavy, heedless, impassive, inanimate, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, lackadaisical, laid-back*, languid, languishing, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lukewarm, neutral, passive, phlegmatic, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, stupid, supine, thoughtless, torpid, uninterested, vacant, energyless, lagging, languorous, lymphatic, mopish, out of it |
| Antonyms: | active, alert, attentive, energetic, lively, untired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meek |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy; compliant |
| Synonyms: | deferential, docile, forbearing, gentle, humble, lenient, long-suffering, lowly, manageable, mild, modest, nothing, orderly, pabulum*, passive, patient, peaceful, plain, resigned, serene, soft, spineless, spiritless, subdued, submissive, tame, timid, tolerant, unassuming, unpretentious, weak, wishy-washy*, yielding, zero*, acquiescent, longanimous, milquetoast, unresisting, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, immodest, impertinent, uninhibited, emboldened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonviolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | peaceful |
| Synonyms: | pacifist, passive, peaceable, quiet, resistant, irenic, nonbelligerent, without violence |
| Antonyms: | hateful, mean, violent, wicked, wild |
| Main Entry: | phlegmatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unemotional |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah*, cold, cool, deadpan, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, emotionless, flat, frigid, groggy, indifferent, lethargic, lifeless, listless, passive, sluggish, unfeeling, unresponsive, along for the ride, desensitized, passionless, uncompassionate, undemonstrative, unexcitable, uninvolved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | powerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak; unable |
| Synonyms: | blank, chicken*, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, disabled, feeble, frail, gutless, helpless, impotent, incapable, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual, inert, infirm, paralyzed, passive, prostrate, subject, supine, tied, unarmed, unfit, vulnerable, wimp*, wishy-washy*, disenfranchised, etiolated, out of gas |
| Antonyms: | able, dominant, potent, powerful, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quiescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, dormant, fallow, idle, immobile, inert, inoperative, latent, motionless, passive, quiet, stagnant, still, at rest, deactivated, in abeyance, slumbering |
| Antonyms: | active |
| Main Entry: | servile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grovelling, subservient |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, beggarly, craven, cringing, despicable, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, unctuous, bootlicking, eating crow, eating humble pie, sycophantic, toadying, unresisting |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, dominant |
| Main Entry: | slothful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lazy |
| Synonyms: | comatose, dull, idle, inactive, inattentive, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, lethargic, lifeless, listless, loafing, passive, slack, slow, sluggish, supine, tired, dallying, lagging, procrastinating, snoozy, unenergetic |
| Main Entry: | stagnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | motionless, dirty |
| Synonyms: | brackish, dead, dormant, filthy, foul, idle, immobile, inactive, inert, lifeless, listless, passive, putrid, quiet, sluggish, stale, standing, static, stationary, still, unmoving |
| Antonyms: | moving |
| Main Entry: | static |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | motionless, changeless |
| Synonyms: | constant, fixed, format, immobile, immovable, inactive, inert, latent, passive, rigid, stable, stagnant, stationary, sticky, still, stopped, stuck, unchanging, unmoving, unvarying, at a standstill, deadlocked, gridlocked, stabile, stalled, standing still, unfluctuating |
| Antonyms: | active, changeable, continuous, mobile, moving, variable |
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