Englishpassive
adjective
1 he played only a passive role in the proceedings:
inactive, nonactive, nonparticipative, nonparticipating, uninvolved, dormant, quiescent, inert.
2 the women were portrayed as passive victims:
submissive, acquiescent, unresisting, yielding, unassertive, nonresistant, compliant, complaisant, pliant, resigned, obedient, docile, tractable, malleable, pliable, meek, subdued, deferential, forbearing, long-suffering, patient, lamblike, nonviolent, supine;
nonaggressive;
archaic resistless.
▷antonyms active, assertive.