what does passive agressive mean?

Answer 1

Passive-agressives are the types of people who will not confront others directly. Instead they harbor deep grudges in private, and then undercut and snipe at those they hate from behind the person's back. All the while, on the surface, they appear meek and mild and unfazed. They are hidden volcanoes of resentment, but they try to avoid direct confrontations.

Answer 2

It's one of the personality types.
I'm passive agressive. The only one i'll hurt in the end is me. The fact that my actions creates hurt for others is irrelevant. Their attitudes are causing me hurt in the first place. I used to bottle all the hurt and anger up and when it all got to much i would cut. Now i scream and shout:-)

I have a lot of energetic anger inside but am very humanitarian. I would never kill a peadophile. I would put them all together on an remote island and let them kill each other.

It's a label for something the medical establishment don't understand or even don't want to understand. It's a label for those that can't conform through no choice of their own in a way.

And that Wikkipedia link earlier is me to the bone. :-)

Answer 3

Passive-aggresive is quite hard to explain so bear with me.
Aggressive is using, well aggression, to get what you want or your own way e.g. shouting at someone to get what you want, threatening someone etc.
Passive is basically allowing people to walk all over you. You go to complain about a faulty product and walk out having nothing resolved e.g. not getting a refund or replacement.
Passive-aggressive is when you use the "victim"card. For example, But if you don't give me my money back my husband will kill me and my kids will go hungry. You basically use guilt as a way to get what you want. It's a mixture of the passive and aggresive, hence the phrase. You use aggression but in a passive way. Instead of threatening or shouting, you use guilt in one way or another.
Obviously there are other examples, e.g. not wanting to do something but instead of saying no, you say yes and just don't do it.

Answer 4

A person who is passive/ aggressive will make sly little remarks to hurt or injure you without laying a finger on you. I know this lady who has this and she knows the right buttons to push to hurt other people. Her brother is married to my cousin. She knows how much I love my uncle my mother's brother (mom passed away years ago) Well any way when my Aunt passed away my cousin and her husband (This lady's brother) & their baby moved in with my uncle.Who is not well. This lady Will say things like "My brother will kick that crazy old man out of that house and take that house away from him." Or "I'm going to whack that crazy old man in the back of his head the next time her slams the door to his room and he wakes up the baby." Or "that House belongs to my brother now"Knowing full well that I know how much that house mean to my uncle as he drew up the blue prints and built it himself. It is a very beautiful house. So she has a need to hurt people but she does it in a passive way.

Answer 5

Courtesy of Wikipedia:

Passive-aggressive behaviour refers to passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. It can manifest itself as resentment, stubbornness, procrastination, sullenness, or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is assumed, often explicitly, to be responsible. It is a defensive posture and, more often than not, only partly conscious. For example, people who are passive-aggressive might take so long to get ready for a party they do not wish to attend, that the party is nearly over by the time they arrive.

Answer 6

Passive-aggressive personality disorder (also called negativistic personality disorder) is a controversial personality disorder said to be marked by a pervasive pattern of negative attitudes and passive, usually disavowed resistance in interpersonal or occupational situations.

Answer 7

It means a peaceful protest--for instance sitting outside the gates of 10 Downing Street would be a passive aggressive protest if you had a valid reason-and there are many many reasons for getting rid of the tax squandering fool in power.

Answer 8

I get my way, not by direct confrontation, but by being laid back.

If I don't want to go to your mother's, I am lazy and indolent, instead of screaming and breaking up the furniture

Answer 9

they say its ok if something bad happens (even if they dont feel its ok) but then later they will do something to get revenge

Answer 10

If you choose to do nothing you still have made a choice