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Adjective active has 16 senses
- active - tending to become more severe or wider in scope; "active tuberculosis"
Antonyms: inactive, arrested, in remission, dead-end, indolent, latent, quiescent
- active, combat-ready, fighting - engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces"
Antonym: nonoperational (indirect, via operational)
- active - disposed to take action or effectuate change; "a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations"; "an active antagonism"; "he was active in drawing attention to their grievances"
Antonyms: passive, inactive, hands-off, resistless, supine, unresisting
- active, participating - taking part in an activity; "an active member of the club"; "he was politically active"; "the participating organizations"
Antonym: uninvolved (indirect, via involved)
- active - characterized by energetic activity; "an active toddler"; "active as a gazelle"; "an active man is a man of action"
Antonyms: inactive, desk-bound, deskbound, dormant, hypoactive, underactive, inert, sluggish, torpid, sedentary
- active - exerting influence or producing an effect; "an active ingredient"
Antonyms: inactive, quiescent
- active - full of activity or engaged in continuous activity; "an active seaport"; "an active bond market"; "an active account"
Antonyms: inactive, closed, dark, dead, dull, slow, sluggish, idle, unused, strikebound
- active, alive - in operation; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still alive"; "an active tradition"
Antonym: nonexistent (indirect, via existent)
- active - of the sun; characterized by a high level activity in sunspots and flares and radio emissions
Antonym: quiet
- active - expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions"
Antonym: passive
- active, dynamic - expressing action rather than a state of being; used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')
Antonym: stative
- active - (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; "active volcanos"
Antonyms: dormant, quiescent, extinct, inactive, dead
- active - producing activity or change
Antonyms: counteractive, antagonistic, antacid, antidotal, antiphlogistic, countervailing, offsetting, compensatory, compensative, opposing
- active - engaged in full-time work; "active duty"; "though past retirement age he is still active in his profession"
Antonyms: inactive, off, off duty, off-duty, on leave, retired
- active - being in physical motion; "active fish in the aquarium"
Antonyms: nonmoving, unmoving (indirect, via moving)
- active, physical - characterized by energetic bodily activity; "tennis is an active sport"; "a very physical dance performance"
Antonyms: lethargic, unergetic (indirect, via energetic)
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