Active
adjectiveAdjective
taking part in an activity
“an active member of the club”
“he was politically active”
Similar:Participatingengaged in or ready for military or naval operations
“on active duty”
in operation
“an active tradition”
Similar:Alivecharacterized by energetic activity
“an active toddler”
“active as a gazelle”
“an active man is a man of action”
See also:EnergeticLivelydisposed 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”
engaged in full-time work
“active duty”
“though past retirement age he is still active in his profession”
full of activity or engaged in continuous activity
“an active seaport”
“an active bond market”
“an active account”
exerting influence or producing a change or effect
“an active ingredient”
(of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt
“active volcanos”
tending to become more severe or wider in scope
“active tuberculosis”
expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:
“Hemingway favors active constructions”
(used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being
Similar:Dynamic(of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting
See also:Live(of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions
Noun
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”
Type of:Voicea person who is a participating member of an organization
“the club issues a list of members, both the actives and the retirees”
Type of:SomeoneSoulMortalchemical agent capable of activity
Dictionary Validity
- Tournament Word List (TWL)
- Scrabble US
- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW21)
- Scrabble UK
- ENABLE Dictionary
- Words With Friends
- Combined US/UK Scrabble Dictionary
- SOWPODS
- North American Scrabble (NWL2020)
- NASPA