passive resister

1. 1.

   a reformer who believes in passive resistance

   Synonymsnon-resistant

   Broaderreformer

Questions about passive resister

What does passive resister mean?

passive resister means "a reformer who believes in passive resistance".

What is another word for passive resister?

Close synonyms include non-resistant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is passive resister a common word?

passive resister is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.