Definition of active

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Active (a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes..

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Passive :: Passive (a.) Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission..
Active :: Active (a.) Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal..
Self-active :: Self-active (a.) Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
Alliciency :: Alliciency (n.) Attractive power; attractiveness.
Shipment :: Shipment (n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West..
Contemplative :: Contemplative (n.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity..
Restive :: Restive (a.) Inactive; sluggish.
Active :: Active (a.) Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy..
Grace :: Grace (n.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse..
Wimble :: Wimble (a.) Active; nimble.
Vegetous :: Vegetous (a.) Vigorous; lively; active; vegete.
Deliver :: Deliver (v. t.) Free; nimble; sprightly; active.
Make :: Make (v. i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.
Bright :: Bright (a.) Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty..
Stonechat :: Stonechat (n.) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith..
Brainy :: Brainy (a.) Having an active or vigorous mind.
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen..
Active :: Active (a.) Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice..
Yern :: Yern (a.) Eager; brisk; quick; active.
Stir :: Stir (v. i.) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
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