| Main Entry: | passive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lifeless, inactive |
Synonyms: |
acquiescent, apathetic, asleep, bearing, compliant, cool, docile, enduring, flat, forbearing, going through motions, hands off, idle, indifferent, inert, laid-back*, latent, long-suffering, moony, motionless, nonresistant, nonviolent, patient, phlegmatic, poker-faced, quiescent, quiet, receptive, resigned, sleepy, static, stolid, submissive, tractable, unassertive, unflappable, uninvolved, unresisting, walking through it, yielding |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | submissive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant |
Synonyms: |
abject, accommodating, acquiescent, amenable, bowing down, comformable, complying, deferential, docile, domesticated, dutiful, giving-in, humble, ingratiating, lowly, malleable, meek, menial, nonresistant, nonresisting, obedient, obeisant, obeying, obsequious, passive, patient, pliable, pliant, resigned, servile, slavish, subdued, tame, tractable, uncomplaining, unresisting, yes*, yielding |
Antonyms: |
disobedient, fighting, intractable, resistant, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | susceptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exposed, naive |
Synonyms: |
affected, aroused, be taken in, disposed, easily moved, easy, fall for, given, gullible, impressed, impressible, impressionable, inclined, influenced, liable, mark, movable, nonresistant, obnoxious, open, out on a limb, persuadable, predisposed, prone, pushover, ready, receptive, responsive, roused, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, sitting duck, soft, stirred, subject, sucker, suggestible, susceptive, swallow, swayed, tender, touched, tumble for, vulnerable, wide open |
Antonyms: |
resistant, resisting, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | yielding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accommodating |
Synonyms: |
acquiescent, biddable, compliant, docile, easy, flexible, humble, nonresistant, obedient, passive, pliable, pliant, putty in one's hands, resigned, submissive, tractable |
Antonyms: |
obstinate, resistant, unflexible |
| Main Entry: | acquiescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | passive |
Synonyms: |
acquiescing, assentive, nonresistant, resigned, submissive, unresistant, yielding |
| Main Entry: | yielding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
self, concessive, down on one's marrow, givy, humble, indefensible, non, pliant, resigned, submissive, surrendering, undefended, unresisting, untenable
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