Usually means: Without active participation or effort.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word passively:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. passively: Merriam-Webster
  2. passively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. passively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. passively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Passively, passively: Wordnik
  6. passively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. passively: Wiktionary
  8. Passively, passively: Dictionary.com
  9. passively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Passively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. passively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. passively: Rhymezone
  13. Passively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. passively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. passively: FreeDictionary.org
  16. passively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. passively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. passively: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. passively: Legal dictionary
  3. passively: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passively: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. passively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. passively: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (passively)

adverb:  In a passive manner; without conscious or self-directed action.
adverb:  In an acquiescent manner; resignedly or submissively.
adverb:  (grammar) In the passive voice; having a passive construction.

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