Active is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the active mood of a verb
• chemical agent capable of activity
• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb
• a person who is a participating member of an organization
• active form of a verb
ADJECTIVE:
• expressing action
• moving or tending to move about vigorously or frequently
• characterized by busy or lively activity
• participating or engaged in a particular sphere or activity in a positive or spontaneous rather than a passive way
• (of an electric circuit) capable of modifying its state or characteristics automatically in response to input or feedback
• (of a volcano) that is erupting or has erupted in historical times
• (of a disease) in which the symptoms are manifest; not in remission or latent
• having a chemical or biological effect on something
• engaging or ready to engage in physically energetic pursuits
• pursuing an occupation or activity at a particular place or in a particular way
• (of a thing) working; operative
• denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject is typically the person or thing performing the action and which can take a direct object (e.g. she loved him as opposed to the passive form he was loved).
• an active form of a verb.
• moving, working
• Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.
• Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal.
• In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.
• Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.
• Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.
• Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.
• Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.
• Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy.
• Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice.
• Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
• Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
• tending to become more severe or wider in scope
• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations
• disposed to take action or effectuate change
• taking part in an activity
• characterized by energetic activity
• exerting influence or producing a change or effect
• full of activity or engaged in continuous activity
• in operation
• (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions
• expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:
• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run\') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running\' in `running water\')) expressing action rather than a state of being
• (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting
• (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt
• engaged in full-time work
• (of a person's mind or imagination) alert and lively
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a participating member of an organization

Words related to ACTIVE

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Words that contain ACTIVE

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How to use ACTIVE in a sentence

• The Germans, however, were as active as formerly, and Mr.
• Thus an active, earnest, competent man may influence for good the schools of all grades throughout the state.
• Such securities for freedom are thought to have made active and political rebellion obsolete.
• Those things make happiness impossible, for they frustrate the active exercise of vital powers, and give life no scope.
• Waddell family, lived to be 106 years old, and was active up to her death.
• Her brain was very active, and her thoughts were by no means happy ones.
• Now the Life of our Divine Lord exhibits, of course, both the Active and the Contemplative elements that have always distinguished the Life of His Church.
• There was little or no breeze, and Desmond, unused of late to active exercise, found the heat terribly trying.
• About the year Eighteen Hundred Forty, the railroad renaissance was on in England, and young Wallace, alive, alert, active, did his turn as apprentice to a surveyor.
• Lord Cunliffe has been active in the banking field for many years and is a member of the firm of Cunliffe Brothers.
• They are of middle size and robust, of very active, enterprising nature and of a complexion slightly lighter than the average Malay.
• When ideas once gain real significance in the mind, they become active agents.
• This officer had distinguished himself through a long series of years in the most active and daring military services, especially in Germany, Poland, and Russia.
• There was a good deal to provoke them also in the character of some of the Northern men who had gone to the South to take an active part in political affairs.
• His figure was active and slim, his leg neat, and he had not in his whiskers a single white hair.
• In 1905 he came back to Russia, resumed his University work and took an active part in the political movement.
• Universe composed of the Active, or Divine, and the Passive, or changing, 654-m.
• She hesitated for some time, lest her active duties in the church should conflict with the cares of a home of her own.
• In Germany the Achenbachs, Lessing, and many other artists were active in this movement, while in America, Innes, A.
• He was a wealthy merchant of Salem, eighty-two years of age, and had for many years given up active business.
• He was never in public life, but was an active, enterprising man.
• This is an active state that will become astonishment.
• My mind was active, though I found to my surprise that it was more nearly calm than it had been for days.
• Tiffles had selected, as his first field of active operations, the State of New Jersey.
• Privateers under American colours were harassing British trade in the West Indies, and Nelson saw much active service.
• The only escape from moral blight and confusion is by active conflict with the forces of evil.
• The only way, she realized, was to watch and hope, to play the waiting game as far as this was possible to her active nature.
• She never again, in the active practise of her profession, knew anything quite like the ensuing seventy-two hours.

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