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unpassive

unpassive adjective: not passive.

Adjective

unpassive (comparative more unpassive, superlative most unpassive)

  1. Not passive.
    • […] he sees Kafka's novels as a plea for moral passivity—which is to miss, among other things, Kafka's occasional strand of subterranean rebelliousness and his quite unpassive humor.1951, Partisan Review, volume 18, page 128
    • What is different, as we have attempted to show, is just how unpassive and unfetishized she is by the camera.2004, Susan Hayward, Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign, page 95

Forms of unpassive

comparativemore unpassive
superlativemost unpassive

Origin of unpassive

From un- + passive.

Questions about unpassive

What does unpassive mean?
Unpassive means not passive.
What part of speech is unpassive?
Unpassive is an adjective.

Words near unpassive in the dictionary

  1. unpassionate
  2. unpassionately
  3. unpassionateness
  4. unpassioned
  5. unpassivated
  6. unpassive
  7. unpassivizability
  8. unpassivizable
  9. unpassivized
  10. unpassworded
  11. unpaste

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