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Astir

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Moving about; being in motion.

adj. Having gotten out of bed.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. In motion; characterized by motion.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

ad. Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

On the stir; on the move; stirring; active.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. on the move

adj. out of bed

Word Usage

"* The pages were outlined by a thick black border and included a three-page biography that opened, Martin Luther King Jr. is like the great Yggdrasil tree, ‘whose roots,’ a poet said, ‘are deep in earth but in whose upper branches the stars of heaven are glowing and astir.’"

Equivalent

active awake

Cross Reference

afloat

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

stirring active moving ago

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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