passive vocabulary

English

Noun

passive vocabulary (plural passive vocabularies)

1. The words and phrases, collectively, that someone understands in speech and writing but does not commonly use.

   Coordinate term: active vocabulary

   John's passive vocabulary seems to encompass most of the words in the Collegiate Dictionary!

Translations

words and phrases that someone understands but does not commonly use

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 被動詞彙／被动词汇 (bèidòng cíhuì)

• Dutch: passieve woordenschat m
• Finnish: passiivinen sanavarasto
• French: vocabulaire passif m
• German: passiver Wortschatz (de) m
• Polish: słownik bierny m
• Portuguese: vocabulário passivo m
• Romanian: vocabular pasiv (ro) n
• Russian: пасси́вный слова́рный запа́с m (passívnyj slovárnyj zapás), пасси́вная ле́ксика f (passívnaja léksika), пасси́вный лексико́н m (passívnyj leksikón), пасси́вный слова́рь (ru) m (passívnyj slovárʹ)
• Ukrainian: паси́вний словнико́вий запа́с m (pasývnyj slovnykóvyj zapás), паси́вний словни́к m (pasývnyj slovnýk)