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"he listened passively"in a passive mannerOpposite:
Definition that contains passively
- fall pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- recipient the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
- recipient role the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
- social control control exerted (actively or passively) by group action
- take lying down suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively