passively meaning in Français | English Dictionary

📖 Définitions

adverb
passivement; passivement; passivement; soumisement, docilement; à la voix passive; passif; Immunisation passive

EN: In a passive manner; without active response, resistance, or participation; accepting or allowing what happens without taking action.; In a way that does not involve active effort or engagement; in an inactive or non-participatory manner.; In a manner that involves receiving or absorbing something rather than producing or initiating it, as in passive listening or passive income.; In a submissive or yielding manner; without asserting oneself or resisting authority.; In a grammatical sense, in the passive voice, where the subject receives the action of the verb rather than performing it.; In electronics or physics, in a manner that does not require an external power source or active component to function.; In medicine, in a manner that relies on the body's own immune response rather than on externally introduced antibodies or agents.

🔗 Détails

Formes du mot

Collocations

passively acceptpassively resistpassively observepassively involvedpassively wait

Dérivés

passivepassivenesspassivitypassivatepassivation

Synonymes

inactivelysubmissivelydocilelyunresistinglyacquiescently

Antonymes

activelyaggressivelyassertively

Souvent confondus

patiently

EN: 'Patiently' implies calm endurance while waiting; 'passively' implies lack of action or resistance, often with a negative connotation of not engaging.

fr: 'Patiently' implique une endurance calme en attendant ; 'passively' implique un manque d'action ou de résistance, souvent avec une connotation négative de ne pas s'impliquer.

Conseils d'orthographe

EN: Remember the double 's' in 'passively' and the '-ively' ending (not '-ively' vs '-ivly').

fr: N'oubliez pas le double 's' dans 'passively' et la terminaison '-ively' (pas '-ively' contre '-ivly').

💬 Exemples

She passively accepted the decision without raising any objections.

Elle a accepté passivement la décision sans soulever aucune objection.
He passively watched television for hours instead of going outside.

Il regardait la télévision passivement pendant des heures au lieu de sortir.
The students passively listened to the lecture without taking notes.

Les étudiants ont écouté passivement le cours sans prendre de notes.
The prisoners passively obeyed the guards' commands.

Les prisonniers obéirent passivement aux ordres des gardiens.
The sentence was constructed passively, with the object placed in the subject position.

La phrase a été construite à la voix passive, l'objet étant placé en position de sujet.
The sensor passively detects infrared radiation emitted by objects.

Le capteur détecte passivement le rayonnement infrarouge émis par les objets.
The infant was passively immunized through antibodies transferred from the mother's milk.

Le nourrisson a été immunisé passivement par des anticorps transférés via le lait maternel.