passive

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

passive UK US [ˈpæs.ɪv] adjective
 
BEHAVIOUR

1. often disapproving not acting to influence or change a situation; allowing other people to be in control
• He's very passive in the relationship.
• Men have always played an active part in leading worship while women have been confined to more passive roles.
See also impassive
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• the passive voice/mood
• '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.
• 'Was made' is a passive form of the verb 'make'.
• Some verbs do not have a passive form.
 
GRAMMAR
2. specialized of the form of a verb used when the grammatical subject is the person or thing which experiences the effect of an action, rather than the person or thing which causes the effect
• 'He was released from prison' is a passive sentence.
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Derived: passively
 
noun only singular specialized
the passive
<I > a way of structuring a sentence so that the grammatical subject is the person or thing which experiences the effect of an action, rather than the person or thing which causes the effect
• When changed into the passive, 'The dog chased the cat' becomes 'The cat was chased by the dog'.
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• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  peaceful, inactive, passive voice
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  active, active voice