Synonyms and Antonyms of passive
receiving or enduring without offering resistance
- the union rank and file were surprisingly passive about the givebacks in the new labor contract
forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining
agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing
obeisant, submissive, surrendering
amiable, obliging
slavish, subservient
disciplined, governable, manageable
apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive
defiant
contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward
balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded
headstrong, willful (or wilful)
indomitable
undisciplined, unmanageable
dissident, nonconformist
