passive-aggressivist

noun

A passive-aggressive person.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounpassive-aggressivist (plural passive-aggressivists)

plural passive-aggressivists

  1. rareA passive-aggressive person.

    2000, "Running Mates", season 2, episode 10 of Family Guy Lois Griffin, daughter of shipping industrialist Carter Pewterschmidt and passive-aggressivist Barbara Pewterschmidt.

    1 more example

    It was a joke, dickfor. I'm a passifist.^([sic]) Or rather, a passive-aggressivist. Violence is for the feeble minded. Now *taunting,* that's where true art lies.

    1998 February 19, Klevr1, “Re: sXe in Utah”, in alt.punk (Usenet), message-ID <19980219054801.AAA06487@ladder03.news.aol.com>

Origin

From passive-aggressive + -ist.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

passive-aggressivist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passive-aggressivist

MLA

“passive-aggressivist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passive-aggressivist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “passive-aggressivist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passive-aggressivist.

Source: passive-aggressivist on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.