passive

Adjective
  1. Lacking in energy or will (synset 300039705)
    "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"
    tells us about: passiveness, passivity - the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
    similar to:
    same as: inactive
  2. Peacefully resistant in response to injustice (synset 302523159)
    "passive resistance"
    similar to: nonviolent - abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
    same as: peaceful
  3. Expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb (synset 300042449)
    "academics seem to favor passive sentences"
    referred to in: grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
Noun
  1. The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb (synset 113825643)
    "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"
    is a type of: voice - (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
    same as: passive voice

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