passive
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passive |
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Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, abject, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, active, active voice, adapting, adaptive, adjusting, agreeable, aloof, amenable, apathetic, asleep,
assenting, bearing, benumbed, blah, blank, blankminded, blase, bovine, calm, cataleptic, catatonic, centrist, comatose, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, consenting, contemplative, cool, dead, deferential, desensitized, detached, disinterested,
dispassionate, do-nothing, docile,
dopey, dormant, dull, empty-headed, empty, enduring, even, fatuous,
fifty-fifty, flat, flexible,
forbearing, foul, gentle, groggy, half-and-half, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, humble, idle, immobile, impartial, impassive,
imperturbable, implicit, in a
stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane, incogitant, independent, indifferent, inert, insouciant, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lamblike, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy,
long-suffering, malleable, medio-passive, meditative, meek, middle, middle voice, midway, moderate, motionless, neuter,
neutral, nirvanic, nonaligned, nonchalant, noncommitted, nondissenting, nonpartisan, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nonviolent, numb, numbed, obedient, oblivious, on the fence, out of it,
ovine, paralytic, paralyzed, passive voice, patient, phlegmatic, placid, pliable, pluckless, procrastinating, quiescent,
quiet, quietist, quietistic, receptive, reconciled, reflexive,
relaxed, repressed, resigned, sedentary, serene, servile, sheepish, slack,
sleeping, sleepy, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, standing, standpat, static, stationary, still, stoic,
stolid, stupefied, subdued, submissive, subservient, supine, suspended, tacit,
tame, third-force, third-world, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tolerant, torpid, tractable, tranquil, unaffected, unaroused, unassertive, uncaring, uncommitted,
uncomplaining, unconcerned, undisclosed, unexpressed, unideaed, unintellectual, uninterested, uninvolved, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unperturbed, unreasoning, unresistant, unresisting, unresponsive, unrevealed,
unshaken, unthinking, untouched, vacant, vacuous, vegetable, vegetative, voice, withdrawn, yielding
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passive resistance |
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Quakerism, a wise passiveness, acquiescence,
amenability, challenge, civil disobedience, combative reaction, complaint, compliance,
contemplation, contemplative life, counteraction, defiance, demur, disobedience, dispute, dissent, dissentience, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism,
do-nothingness, dormancy, fractiousness, frowardness, humbleness, humility, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indiscipline, indocility,
indolence, inertia, inertness,
infraction, infringement, insubordination, intractability, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lawbreaking, lawlessness, meditation, meekness,
naughtiness, negativism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noncompliance,
nonconformity, noncooperation, noninvolvement, nonobedience, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, obedience, objection, obstinacy, opposition, pacifism, paralysis, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, policy, procrastination, protest, quiescence,
quietism, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recusancy, refractoriness, reluctance,
remonstrance, renitence, renitency,
repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion, resignation, resistance, revolt, stagnancy, stagnation,
stand, standpattism, stasis,
submission, submissiveness, transgression, uncomplainingness, uncooperativeness, unduteousness,
undutifulness, unsubmissiveness, vegetation, violation, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
watching and waiting, waywardness, willful disobedience, withstanding
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Main entries similar to: passive
abject, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, active, agreeable, aloof, amenable, apathetic, asleep, assenting, benumbed, blah, blank, blankminded, blase, calm, catatonic,
centrist, comatose, complaisant, compliant, consenting, dead, detached, disinterested, do nothing, dopey, dormant, dull, empty,
empty-headed, even, fatuous, flat, foul, frigid, groggy, heartless,
heavy, hopeless, humble, idle, immobile, impartial, in suspense, inactive, inane, independent, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, laissez-faire, languid, languorous, latent, lazy, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, meditative, meek, middle, midway, mild,
moderate, motionless, neuter, neutral, nirvanic, nonaligned, nonchalant, noncommitted, nonopposing, nonpartisan,
nonresistive, numb, obedient, oblivious, Olympian, on the fence, paralytic, paralyzed, patient, phlegmatic, potential, powerless, procrastinating, quiescent, quiet, reconciled, reflexive, relaxed, resigned, sedentary, servile, sheepish, silent, slack, sleeping, sleepy, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, standing, standpat, static, stationary, stoic, stolid, stupefied, submissive, subservient, supine, suspended, tame, third world, thoughtless, torpid, tranquil, unaroused, unassertive, uncommitted, uncomplaining, unconcerned,
uninterested, uninvolved, unoccupied, unreasoning, unthinking,
vacant, vacuous, vegetable, voice, withdrawn
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