Passively

He's learning Berber passively.

Yanni was learning Berber passively.

I passively understand German through Dutch, and it’s sort of easy.

The visitors arrive at the island of Espanola. Dozens of sea lions looking like huge overstuffed sausages are flopped out on the beach. Marine iguanas lie passively on the ground or move around noiselessly, ignoring the visitors.

Internally, to be actively passive; externally to be passively active.

Water flowed passively between tanks via the siphon.

Due to this pressure aortic and pulmonary valves are opened passively and due to relaxation blood is sucked from the venae cavae into the atrium.

For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]

Paradoxically, the same faculty who complain about busyness are most likely to end up waiting passively. While they acquiescently wait to write, they busy themselves with other, often trivial, activities.

They were not waving at him but sat passively as if waiting to hear if what he had to say would be derogatory to their previous relationship.