Antonyms of noun passive_voice

1 sense of passive voice

Sense 1
passive voice, passive -- (the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive")
       Antonym of active voice (Sense 1)
      => active voice, active -- (the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb; "`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun passive_voice

1 sense of passive voice

Sense 1
passive voice, passive -- (the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive")
       => voice -- ((linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes)