passive implies immobility or lack of normally expected response to an external force or influence and often suggests deliberate submissiveness or self-control.

PASSIVE definition: not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling. See examples of passive used in a sentence.

We make the passive by putting the verb 'to be' into whatever tense we need and then adding the past participle. For regular verbs, we make the past participle by adding 'ed' to the infinitive.

'Catrin told me' is an active sentence, and 'I was told by Catrin' is passive. In a passive sentence, the subject is the person or thing affected by the action of the verb.

If you describe someone as passive, you mean that they do not take action but instead let things happen to them.

When you're passive, you don't participate much and you're not very emotional. In chemistry, passive means to be "unreactive except under special or extreme conditions; inert."

Definition of passive adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. accepting what happens or what people do without trying to change anything or oppose them. He played a passive role in the …

Used to describe a form of verb in which the grammatical subject is the object of the action, for example, the sentence “The government took steps.” in the passive would be Steps were taken by the …

subject of the active sentence becomes object in the passive sentence (or is left out) We can only form a passive sentence from an active sentence when there is an object in the active sentence.

There are 26 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word passive, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.