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passiveadjective receiving or enduring without offering resistancethe union rank and file were surprisingly passive about the givebacks in the new labor contract acquiescent, nonresistant, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, yielding forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic(or stoical), uncomplainingagreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willingobeisant, submissive, surrenderingamiable, obligingslavish, subservientdisciplined, governable, manageableapathetic, uncaring, unresponsive protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding defiantcontrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untowardbalky, perverse, wayward, wrongheadedheadstrong, willful(or wilful)indomitableundisciplined, unmanageabledissident, nonconformist inactive, idle, inert, passive, supine mean not engaged in work or activity.inactive applies to anyone or anything not in action or in operation or at work.on inactive status as an astronaut inactive accounts idle applies to persons that are not busy or occupied or to their powers or their implements.workers were idle in the fields inert as applied to things implies powerlessness to move or to affect other things; as applied to persons it suggests an inherent or habitual indisposition to activity.inert ingredients in drugs an inert citizenry passive implies immobility or lack of normally expected response to an external force or influence and often suggests deliberate submissiveness or self-control.passive resistance supine applies only to persons and commonly implies abjectness or indolence.a supine willingness to play the fool in the 14th century |