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active

English

  1. 🔊 characterized by energetic activity
    “an active toddler”
  2. 🔊 engaged in full-time work
    “active duty”
  3. 🔊 full of activity or engaged in continuous activity
    “an active seaport”
  4. 🔊 tending to become more severe or wider in scope
    “active tuberculosis”
  5. 🔊 disposed to take action or effectuate change
    “a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations”
  6. 🔊 (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt
    “active volcanos”
  7. 🔊 (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting
  8. 🔊 (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being
  9. 🔊 expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions"
  10. 🔊 exerting influence or producing a change or effect
    “an active ingredient”
  11. 🔊 (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions
  12. 🔊 in operation
    “keep hope alive”
  13. 🔊 taking part in an activity
    “an active member of the club”
  14. 🔊 engaged in or ready for military or naval operations
    “on active duty”
  15. 🔊 a person who is a participating member of an organization
    “the club issues a list of members, both the actives and the retirees”
  16. 🔊 the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb
    “`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice”
  17. 🔊 chemical agent capable of activity

Spanish

  1. 🔊 activo active
  2. 🔊 en actividad active

Similar words

active voice active agent dynamic alive(p) participating combat-ready fighting(a) acting active voice activist activistic acute aggressive agile alert alive animated assiduous at work bouncing bouncy breezy brisk bubbly