{
    "term": "passive",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "accepting what happens or what people do without trying to change anything or oppose them",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He played a passive role in the relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a passive observer of events"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wore a passive expression on her face as if she didn’t care what happened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Watching TV is a completely passive activity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are passive recipients of information from the world around us."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "connected with the form of a verb used when the subject is affected by the action of the verb, for example He was bitten by a dog.",
            "labels": "(grammar)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Language"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpæsɪv/",
                "audio": "pa/passive/passive__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpæsɪv/",
                "audio": "pa/passive/passive__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in sense (2), also in the sense ‘(exposed to) suffering, acted on by an external agency’): from Latin passivus, from pass- ‘suffered’, from the verb pati."
}