unpassive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ passive

Adjective[edit]

unpassive (comparative more unpassive, superlative most unpassive)

  1. Not passive.
    • 1951, Partisan Review, volume 18, page 128:
      […] 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.
    • 2004, Susan Hayward, Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign, page 95:
      What is different, as we have attempted to show, is just how unpassive and unfetishized she is by the camera.
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