passively
18
3.7
- adverb
- /ˈpæsɪvli/
:
pasivamente
- I'm not gonna sit passively and let this happen.
- passively accept
- listen passively
- passively watching
We must live on death row, waiting patiently and passively until that final day.
- We must live on death row, waiting patiently and passively until that final day.
- I hope that there's more to us than just what videos we passively consume on our phones.
- Can you see how it's impossible for us to passively go through this time in history?
- So those are things that our senses are taking in and we remember them, we imagine them, and we also sort of passively receive them.
- So first we have a reactor core whose efficiency will decrease if it gets hotter, and then it will passively be cooled from the gas.
- Like clearly, like something's brewing and we just need more people who are willing to take a stand versus passively accept a ending world.
- They're still going to expect to be the center of attention, but they're going to do it more passively.
- So amphibians who were breathing not by compressing the lungs and then just passively expanding it weren't able to generate a lot of force.
- But I think the amount of search, because a lot of the percentage of search is search to action and the fact that voice can do that passively.
- But wealth creation is creating money passively and money growing for you while you are not working and trading your time for it.
Examples
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You have the power to create meaning in your life rather than passively look for it.
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She passively observed the conversation, without feeling the need to interrupt.
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And so many people take, they sit back passively and say, OK, you know, teach me.
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Can you see how it's impossible for us to passively go through this time in history?
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In lecture courses, students typically sit passively and listen to presentations about particular subjects.
Academic text (1993) -
Is there anything like a duty to not just, you know, wait passively for one of your neighbors to need help, but to go out and see?
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Reading comprehension is often taught passively without explicit or direct instruction by the teacher.
Academic text (2015) -
Ordinarily, he would have joined in, but now he stood passively, a blank expression on his face.
Fiction book (1991) -
I hope that there's more to us than just what videos we passively consume on our phones.
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The most typical professional development strategy includes meetings or workshops in which participants passively listen to didactic instruction.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
1
6.7
Without movement or energy, not reacting to anything
Antonyms
How Passive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word passively comes from passive, which comes from an old Latin root pati meaning 'to suffer' or 'to allow', and it is related to patient and patience, which show the same idea of quietly accepting. So, to act passively is to accept what happens without trying to change it.