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passive vocabularies

passive vocabularies is the plural of passive vocabulary.

Meaning of passive vocabulary

Noun

passive vocabulary (countable and uncountable, plural passive vocabularies)

  1. The words and phrases, collectively, that someone understands in speech and writing but does not commonly use.
    • John's passive vocabulary seems to encompass most of the words in the Collegiate Dictionary!

Questions about passive vocabularies

What is passive vocabularies the plural of?
Passive vocabularies is the plural of passive vocabulary.

Words near passive vocabularies in the dictionary

  1. passive vaper
  2. passive vapers
  3. passive vaping
  4. passive vaporing
  5. passive vapouring
  6. passive vocabularies
  7. passive vocabulary
  8. passive voice
  9. passive voices
  10. passive-aggression
  11. passive-aggressive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: passive vocabularies (page history and authors); passive vocabulary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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