Passive and Stupid

Passive

Passive adjective - Receiving or enduring without offering resistance.

Stupid and passive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stupid" instead an adjective "Passive".

Nearby Words: passivity, passively, passible, passivation

Stupid

Stupid adjective - Not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily.

Passive and stupid are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Passive" instead an adjective "Stupid".

Nearby Words: stupidity, stupor, stupidly

Both words in one sentence

  • The only reason he doesn't get called out on any of it is because Harry's too genuinely stupid and passive to do so.
  • Theatre / Sera Myu She's using keigo (polite/formal Japanese) when she does so; in any less polite Japanese, the phrase would easily become "stupid little girls", which gives this insult a particularly passive-aggressive bent.
  • Crapsack World / Web Comics Something*Positive is set in a world where every person is generally petty, greedy, self-centered, stupid and/or passive-aggressively oblivious.
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