Passively: alternatives and connections

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, m…

A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to…

A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand,…

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; a…

To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the…

The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.

To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a j…

Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local h…

Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation.

Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.

To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive particip…

To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the p…

That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity w…

The future passive participle; as, amandus, i. e., to be loved.

Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.

To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form gi…

vivid picturesque description.; "Hypotyposis, in other words, makes the mediated appear immediate and induces passive acceptance."

(medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitationa…