passive
English
/ˈpæs.ɪv/
adj
Definitions
- Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
- Taking no action.
- (grammar) Being in the passive voice.
- (psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
- (finance) Not participating in management.
- (aviation) Without motive power.
- (electronics) Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (hurt, hate).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₁-
Gloss
hurt, hate
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
憎
Emoji
🤕
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antipassive English
- endopassive English
- exopassive English
- impassive English
- impassively English
- impassiveness English
- impassivity English
- mediopassive English
- neutropassive English
- nonpassive English
- nonpassivity English
- passionate English
- passival English
- passivate English
- passivation English
- passively English
- passiveness English
- passivisable English
- passivise English
- passivism English
- passivist English
- passivistic English
- passivistically English
- passivity English
- passivizable English
- passivization English
- passivize English
- passivizer English
- patience English
- penitential English
- penitentially English
- penitently English
- pseudopassive English
- repassivation English
- repentance English
- repentant English
- repentantly English
- transpassivation English
- transpassive English
- unimpassive English
- unpassive English
- unpassivizability English
- impatientia Latin
- paene Latin
- paenitentia Latin
- paeniteo Latin
- paenitere Latin
- paenitēns Latin
- passio Latin
- patiens Latin
- patientia Latin
- penitente Spanish, Castilian
- πῆμα Ancient Greek
- ἀπήμων Ancient Greek
- *peh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *fijandz Proto-Germanic
- pasiv Albanian
- *píHyati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- patience
- passival
- passivist
- passivate
- passivity
- passively
- passivise
- passivism
- passivize
- unpassive
- impassive
- repentant
- repentance
- exopassive
- penitently
- passivizer
- passionate
- nonpassive
- passivistic
- unimpassive
- impassively
- antipassive
- passiveness
- impassivity
- passivation
- endopassive
- penitential
- repentantly
- transpassive
- mediopassive
- nonpassivity
- passivizable
- passivisable
- repassivation
- pseudopassive
- passivization
- penitentially
- impassiveness
- neutropassive
- passivistically
- transpassivation
- unpassivizability