passive, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

passive

1  adj If you describe someone as passive, you mean that they do not take action but instead let things happen to them., (disapproval, Antonym: active) His passive attitude made things easier for me...
♦ passively  adv usu ADV with v
He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
♦ passivity  n-uncount
...the passivity of the public under the military occupation.

2 adj A passive activity involves watching, looking at, or listening to things rather than doing things.
ADJ n (Antonym: active) They want less passive ways of filling their time.

3 adj Passive resistance involves showing opposition to the people in power in your country by not co-operating with them and protesting in non-violent ways.
ADJ n (Antonym: active) They made it clear that they would only exercise passive resistance in the event of a military takeover.

4 n-sing In grammar, the passive or the passive voice is formed using `be' and the past participle of a verb. The subject of a passive clause does not perform the action expressed by the verb but is affected by it. For example, in `He's been murdered', the verb is in the passive. Compare active.
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