passive vocabulary

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passive vocabulary

noun passive vocabularies

  1. countable, uncountable 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!

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noun words and phrases that someone understands but does not commonly use

中文被動詞彙 /被动词汇 bèidòng cíhuì
Portuguêsvocabulário passivo
Françaisvocabulaire passif
Deutschpassiver Wortschatz
Românăvocabular pasiv
Русскийпасси́вный слова́рный запа́с passívnyj slovárnyj zapás, пасси́вная ле́ксика passívnaja léksika, пасси́вный лексико́н passívnyj leksikón, пасси́вный слова́рь passívnyj slovárʹ

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@misc{passive_vocabulary_2026,
  title = {passive vocabulary},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/passive%20vocabulary},
  urldate = {2026-11-08}
}