Definition of active

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Active (a.) Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn..

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Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book..
Stir :: Stir (v. i.) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
Unactiveness :: Unactiveness (n.) Inactivity.
Attraction :: Attraction (n.) That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.
Energy :: Energy (n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive..
Enliven :: Enliven (v. t.) To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire..
Inactive :: Inactive (a.) Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer..
Ecboline :: Ecboline (n.) An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.
Effective :: Effective (n.) One who is capable of active service.
Retroactively :: Retroactively (adv.) In a retroactive manner.
Active :: Active (a.) Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy..
Action :: Action (n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice..
Emmetropia :: Emmetropia (n.) That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism..
Live :: Live (a.) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator..
Extractive :: Extractive (n.) A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
Rising :: Rising (a.) Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation..
Stonechat :: Stonechat (n.) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith..
Congestion :: Congestion (n.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs..
Protractive :: Protractive (a.) Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
Lazy :: Lazy (superl.) Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream..
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