Passive
Antonyms of PASSIVE
- dynamic, Incompliant, agitated, unyielding, contumacious, froward, intractable, dissident, insubordinate, caring, rebellious, disobedient, active voice, headstrong, interested, active, refractory, undisciplined, perverse, uncontrollable, wrongheaded, untoward, lively, willful, protesting, indomitable, wayward, ungovernable, insurgent, concerned, resistant, mutinous, impatient, unmanageable, defiant, nonconformist, contrary.
Examples of usage:
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Every one had obeyed orders in a gloomy or passive manner. "Marguerite de Valois" by Alexandre Dumas
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She cared very little for music, and with her usual honesty she showed, as a rule, a very passive attitude towards it. "The Bent Twig" by Dorothy Canfield
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On the other hand, statements that he was the Emperor of China, and that he was a nurse and I a baby, failed to carry any conviction, being either received with passive consent or rejected with scorn. "Occultism and Common-Sense" by Beckles Willson
