Legal Definition and Related Resources of Passive

Inactive, permissive, subjected to a burden or charge .

adjective

• acquiescent
• amenable
• apathetic
• calm
• compliable
• compliant
• complying
• concessive
• conformable
• docile
• dormant
• duteous
• dutiful
• enduring
• feeble
• flexible
• forbearant
• heedless
• indifferent
• indolent
• influenced
• irresolute
• lamblike
• languorous
• malleable
• nonresistant
• nonresisting
• obedient
• obeisant
• obsequious
• otiose
• phlegmatic
• pliable
• pliant
• quiescent
• receptive
• recumbent
• resigned
• resistless
• restrained
• sequacious
• servile
• subdued
• submissive
• subordinate
• subservient
• supine
• tractable
• unassertive
• undemonstrative
• unresistant
• unresisting
• yielding Associated Concepts: passive negligence
• passive feasor

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• Deceit
• Trust

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