Word Meanings - PASSIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly. 2. As a passive verb; in the passive voice.

Related words: (words related to PASSIVELY)

• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
  One unprovided with motive power.
• INERTLY
  Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• VOICEFUL
  Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge.
• PASSIVE
  Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive. (more info) 1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. The
• PASSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission. To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause. J. Edwards.
• PASSIVELY
  1. In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly. 2. As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• VOICED
  Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed. Voiced stop, Voice stop , a stopped consonant made with tone from the larynx while the mouth organs are closed at some
• VOICELESS
  Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. Voiceless stop , a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. -- Voice"less*ly, adv. -- Voice"less*ness, n. (more info)
• VOICE
  Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper. Note: Voice, in
• INVOICE
  A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• OUTVOICE
  To exceed in noise. Shak.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• LOUD-VOICED
  Having a loud voice; noisy; clamorous. Byron.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.