Crossword-Solution: PASSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Passive | a. | Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. |
| Passive | a. | Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission. |
| Passive | a. | Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive. |
| Passive | a. | Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PASSIVE (5)
Not free, what proof could they have givn sincere Of true allegiance, constant Faith or Love, Where onely what they needs must do, appeard, Not what they would? what praise could they receive? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When Will and Reason (Reason also is choice) Useless and vain, of freedom both despoild, Made passive both, had servd necessitie, Not mee.
There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire to do so, but would have been glad, could he be glad of anything, to fling himself down at the root of the nearest tree, and lie there passive for evermore.
Now, most religions are passive, and they tell us chiefly what we should not do.” The doctor moved restlessly, and his eyes hunted for something along the opposite wall: “See here, my girl, take out the years of early childhood and the time we spend in sleep and dull old age, and we only have about twenty able, waking years.
She lay back in her chair, passive and still, seeing the figure of her relentless enemy ever present before her aching eyes.
Emphasizing the slave as the victim of the slave system further reduces him to a passive object by insisting that the slave was effectively detached from his African heritage.
Quotes with PASSIVE (3)
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Perfection is just an opinion, but the only way anyone will ever reach perfection is through one 'man' who is Jesus Christ. Many have come against him and have passive aggressively felt tall in his imperfections but will forever fall short of his eternal glory. To compare oneself to our God who has given us all life, opportunity, and free will and to use it to gloat over him is a huge mistake that will be paid maybe not in the current life but most definitely in the eternal l…
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Appears in: AARP, CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).