aggressive vs passive

aggressive

adj
  • Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation: butch. 

  • Involving high risk for potentially high reward. 

  • That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant. 

  • Characterized by aggression; unjustly attacking; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking or arguing. 

  • Of heuristics, source code optimization techniques, etc.: exploiting every opportunity to be applied. 

noun
  • One who is aggressive. 

  • A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch. 

passive

adj
  • Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction. 

  • Taking no action. 

  • Being in the passive voice. 

  • Not participating in management. 

  • Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain. 

  • Where allowance is made for a possible future event. 

  • Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one. 

  • Without motive power. 

noun
  • A form of a verb that is in the passive voice. 

  • The passive voice of verbs. 

  • A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth. 

  • Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain. 

How often have the words aggressive and passive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )