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Passive vs Vidiot - What's the difference?

passive | vidiot |

As nouns the difference between passive and vidiot

is that passive is the passive voice of verbs while vidiot is a passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media.

As an adjective passive

is being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.

passive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
  • Taking no action.
    • He remained passive during the protest.
  • (grammar) Being in the passive voice.
  • (psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
  • (finance) Not participating in management.

    • Antonyms

    * active * aggressive

    Synonyms

    * inactive * idle * disinterested * uninvolved

    Derived terms

    * passive-aggressive * passively * passiveness * passive smoking * passive voice * passivity * passivisation / passivization * passivise / passivize

    Related terms

    * passion * passionate * patience * patient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable, grammar) The passive voice of verbs.
  • (countable, grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.

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    vidiot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (derogatory, informal) A passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media.
  • * 1989 , Mike Yaconelli, Scott Koenigsaecker, Get 'em talking: 104 great discussion starters for youth groups (page 118)
    • You are a vidiot if you watch music videos for any period of time without stopping to think about what they are saying.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=March 4, author=Jack Helbig, title=Schoolhouse Rock Live!, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Cynics might say that any show based on television--like, say, The Real Live Brady Bunch--is bound to be popular among the nostalgic vidiot generation. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1995, date=July 28, author=Jack Helbig, title=Battery, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Featuring witty wordplay--Therriault could be David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley's long-lost love child raised in the wild by William Burroughs-- and a story and characters simple enough to be understood by your average vidiot play reader, Battery is just challenging enough to appeal to a young actor's ego but not so challenging as to scare her off. }}
  • * 2009 , Lori Sullivan, Overcoming Autism: A Parent's Guide (page 115)
    • We're raising a generation of vidiots , and it's going to be a problem when they get older.