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adj. Being in physical motion: active fish in the aquarium.

adj. Functioning or capable of functioning.

adj. Marked by energetic activity; busy: active stock and bond markets; spent an active day sightseeing.

adj. Involving or requiring physical exertion and energy: an active workout at the gym.

adj. Being in a state of action; not quiescent: active hostilities along the border.

adj. Erupting or liable to erupt; not dormant: an active volcano.

adj. Marked by or involving direct participation: took an active interest in politics; played an active role on the committee.

adj. Currently in use or effect: an active membership.

adj. Openly acknowledged or expressed: an active dislike of the new neighbors.

adj. Producing an intended action or effect: active ingredients.

adj. Grammar Indicating that the subject of the sentence is performing or causing the action expressed by the verb. Used of a verb form or voice.

adj. Grammar Expressing action rather than a state of being. Used of verbs such as run, speak, and move.

adj. Producing profit, interest, or dividends: active accounts; active stocks.

adj. Electronics Being a source of electrical energy, as a generator.

adj. Electronics Capable of converting or amplifying voltages or currents, as a diode or transistor.

adj. Being on full military duty and receiving full pay.

n. Grammar The active voice.

n. Grammar A construction or form in the active voice.

n. A participating member of an organization: union actives.

adj. 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.

adj. Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal.

adj. In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; — opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct.

adj. 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.

adj. Requiring or implying action or exertion; — opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.

adj. Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; — opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.

adj. Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.

adj. Implying or producing rapid action.

adj. Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.

adj. Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

adj. Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.

adj. (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner

n. A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting.

adj. Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; ; the powers of the mind.

adj. Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.

adj. In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct

adj. Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert

adj. Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil

adj. Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical.

adj. Brisk; lively.

adj. Implying or producing rapid action

adj.

adj. Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice.

adj. Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

adj. Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.

Having the power or property of acting; tending to cause change or communicate action or motion; capable of exerting influence: opposed to passive: as, attraction is an active power.

Specifically In medicine, acting quickly; producing immediate effects: as, active remedies or treatment.

Having the power of quick motion, or disposition to move with speed; nimble; lively; brisk; agile: as, an active animal.

Busy; constantly engaged in action; acting with vigor and assiduity: opposed to dull, slow, or indolent: as, an active officer; also to sedentary: as, an active life.

In a state of action; marked by movement or operation; in actual progress or motion; not quiescent, dormant, or suspended: as, to take active proceedings against an offender; to engage in active hostilities.

Hence In com., marked by quickness or frequency; brisk; lively; coming or moving freely or abundantly: as, an active trade or demand for goods; active freights or stocks. Requiring action or exertion; practical; operative; producing real effects: opposed to speculative: as, the active duties of life; the active powers of the mind.

In grammar, signifying the performance and not the endurance of an action: opposed to passive.

Reid uses the term to denote the will, appetites, affections, etc.; but that use has been generally condemned.

The state of having a place on the active list, under full pay: used in contradistinction to being on the retired list, under reduced pay.

Active regards either mind or body; there is no sinister sense of the word. The activity may be merely for its own sake. Active is opposed to lazy, inert, or quiescent: an active mind, life, person.

Busy is active about something that is supposed to be useful. As applied to disposition, the word has acquired a bad sense, that of meddlesome: a busybody; he is too busy about others' affairs. An officious person is one whose efforts to be active or busy for others' benefit come, through his lack of judgment, to be regarded as annoying or intrusive. See impertinent.

In psychology, representative of a type of character whose dominant characteristic is a natural and constantly renewed tendency to action.

adj. disposed to take action or effectuate change

adj. in operation

n. a person who is a participating member of an organization

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. full of activity or engaged in continuous activity

adj. characterized by energetic activity

adj. engaged in full-time work

adj. taking part in an activity

n. chemical agent capable of activity

adj. tending to become more severe or wider in scope

adj. expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:

adj. exerting influence or producing a change or effect

adj. (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt

adj. engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

n. the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb

adj. (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions

adj. (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting

"The Conjugation of an active verb, is styled the _active voice_; and that of a passive verb, the _passive voice_."

proactive    activistic    activist    hands-on    existent    existing    open    going    springy    bustling   

person    mortal    individual    someone    soul    somebody    chemical agent    voice   

alert    ambitious    active apperception    active verb    active symptoms    active cause    active power    active *congestion    active voice    active service   

voice   

sprightly    lively    brisk    alert    quick    nimble    vigorous    energetic    prompt    agile   

attractive    hyperactive    inactive    interactive    overactive    photorefractive    proactive    radioactive    reactive    refractive   

new    intelligent    powerful    passive    active-transitive    express    perfect    verb    another    neuter