accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance

the women were portrayed as passive victims

denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them)

(of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force

a passive optical network is to be installed in 2000 homes

(of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide

a passive form of a verb