Clues for the word "PASSIVE"
We've had 18 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 26 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on February 27, 2025.
Definition of passive
- a. - Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
- a. - Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
- a. - Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
- a. - Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
Referring Clues
- Type of smoke
- Not really participating
- Inactive
- Lethargic
- Overly compliant
- Lacking get-up-and-go
- Type of resistance
- Type of voice or income
- Fun Lovin' Criminals "___/Aggressive"
- Showing no resistance
- Unmoved, one has to pursue academic success?
- Don't even consider setter's voice
- VIP's sea travels producing no reaction
- Submissive
- Indifferent progress with intravenous drug
- VIP's sea trip producing no reaction
- Permit I have is not active
- Type of voice used in this clue
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - February 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 22, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 22, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 29, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 22, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 26, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 19, 2023
- USA Today - March 14, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 22, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - September 17, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - October 07, 2017
- Your Life Choices - June 27, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 29, 2017
- Universal - September 20, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - March 04, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - June 12, 2014
- Rock n Roll Crossword - January 06, 2013
- Washington Post - November 10, 2012
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 24, 2012
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 08, 2008
- Jonesin - August 26, 2008
- Guardian Quick - March 04, 2006
- Washington Post - January 13, 2002
- Guardian Cryptic - July 17, 2000
- Washington Post - April 16, 2000