Active
['æktɪv]
Definition
(noun.) a person who is a participating member of an organization; 'the club issues a list of members, both the actives and the retirees'.
(adj.) characterized by energetic activity; 'an active toddler'; 'active as a gazelle'; 'an active man is a man of action' .
(adj.) engaged in full-time work; 'active duty'; 'though past retirement age he is still active in his profession' .
(adj.) full of activity or engaged in continuous activity; 'an active seaport'; 'an active bond market'; 'an active account' .
(adj.) tending to become more severe or wider in scope; 'active tuberculosis' .
(adj.) disposed to take action or effectuate change; 'a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations'; 'an active antagonism'; 'he was active in drawing attention to their grievances' .
(adj.) (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; 'active volcanos' .
(adj.) (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting .
(adj.) (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being .
(adj.) expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: 'Hemingway favors active constructions' .
(adj.) exerting influence or producing a change or effect; 'an active ingredient' .
(adj.) in operation; 'keep hope alive'; 'the tradition was still alive'; 'an active tradition' .
(adj.) taking part in an activity; 'an active member of the club'; 'he was politically active'; 'the participating organizations' .
(adj.) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; 'on active duty'; 'the platoon is combat-ready'; 'review the fighting forces' .
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Definition
(a.) Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.
(a.) Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal.
(a.) In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.
(a.) Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.
(a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.
(a.) Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.
(a.) Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.
(a.) Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy.
(a.) Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice.
(a.) Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
(a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Practical, operative, living, vigorous, in action, in operation.[2]. Busy, diligent, assiduous, industrious, indefatigable, unremitting, laborious, sedulous, notable, at work, hard at work, diligently employed, busily engaged.[3]. Alert, nimble, agile, supple, brisk, dapper, stirring, SPRY, smart, quick, prompt, ready, lively, sprightly, spirited.[4]. Enterprising, energetic, strong, efficient, in earnest.[5]. Drastic (as medicine), powerful, efficacious.[6]. (Gram.) Transitive.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Nimble, agile, lively, sprightly, brisk, quick, expert, dexterous, supple,wide-awake, prompt, busy, industrial, diligent
ANT:Slow, inactive, Indolent, sluggish, heavy
Typist: Marcus
Definition
adj. that acts: busy: nimble: practical as opposed to speculative: effective: (gram.) transitive.—adv. Act′ively.—ns. Activ′ity Act′iveness.
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Examples
- Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The object is but a phase of the active end,--continuing the activity successfully. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Yes--yes--the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But his coming for me as he did, with such active, such ready friendship, is enough to prove him one of the worthiest of men. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- These were the opening acts of an active and aggressive career. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The case, however, is different when an animal, during any part of its embryonic career, is active, and has to provide for itself. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Then, when active life is over, let him finally return to philosophy. Plato. The Republic.
- There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Uncommonly active. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All these are active proceedings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But it was not so; I was the same in strength, in earnest craving for sympathy, in my yearning for active exertion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Now active exploitation was required. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Yet she must continue in this state of violent active superconsciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He always took an active part in politics, but was never a candidate for office, except, I believe, that he was the first Mayor of Georgetown. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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