Definition of active

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Active (a.) 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..

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Stirrup :: Stirring (a.) Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life..
Refractive :: Refractive (a.) Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers..
Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
Idle :: Idle (superl.) Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen..
Sluggish :: Sluggish (a.) Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man..
Inactively :: Inactively (adv.) In an inactive manner.
Vegetous :: Vegetous (a.) Vigorous; lively; active; vegete.
Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
Zeal :: Zeal (n.) Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.
Cessant :: Cessant (a.) Inactive; dorman.
Kinetic :: Kinetic (q.) Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent..
Inanimate :: Inanimate (a.) Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances..
Energize :: Energize (v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will..
Pulchritude :: Pulchritude (n.) Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty.
Actuate :: Actuate (v. t.) To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.
Wimble :: Wimble (a.) Active; nimble.
Live :: Live (a.) Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers..
Overlive :: Overlive (v. i.) To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively..
Detractive :: Detractive (a.) Tending to detractor draw.
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