Definition of active

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Active (a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.

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Exert :: Exert (v. t.) To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice..
Animosity :: Animosity (v. t.) Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.
Petrifactive :: Petrifactive (a.) Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
Additive :: Additive (a.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Abstractiveness :: Abstractiveness (n.) The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
Elegancy :: Elegancy (n.) That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
Resort :: Resort (n.) Active power or movement; spring.
Subtrahend :: Subtractive (a.) Having the negative sign, or sign minus..
Energize :: Energize (v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will..
Retractive :: Retractive (a.) Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction.
Bonny :: Bonny (a.) Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
Inactive :: Inactive (a.) Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive..
Free-soil :: Free-soil (a.) Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856..
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..
Frigefactive :: Frigefactive (a.) Cooling.
Attraction :: Attraction (n.) The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence..
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..
Form :: Form (n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law..
Sanguine :: Sanguine (a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament..
Activeness :: Activeness (n.) The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.
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