Crossword-Solution: ACTIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
| Active | a. | Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. |
| Active | a. | In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano. |
| Active | a. | 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. |
| Active | a. | Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes. |
| Active | a. | Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman. |
| Active | a. | Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn. |
| Active | a. | Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy. |
| Active | a. | Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice. |
| Active | a. | Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive. |
| Active | a. | Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ACTIVE | anagram | CAVITE |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ACTIVE (5)
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever.
Him after long debate, irresolute Of thoughts revolv’d, his final sentence chose Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom To enter, and his dark suggestions hide From sharpest sight: for in the wilie Snake, Whatever sleights none would suspicious mark, As from his wit and native suttletie Proceeding, which in other Beasts observ’d Doubt might beget of Diabolic pow’r Active within beyond the sense of brute.
One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and Aesop, like the philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown.
And yet there was not a man any where round, who made higher professions of religion, or was more active in revivals,—more attentive to the class, love-feast, prayer and preaching meetings, or more devotional in his family,—that prayed earlier, later, louder, and longer,—than this same reverend slave-driver, Rigby Hopkins.
The light steel windmills tremble throughout their frames and tug at their moorings, as they vibrate in the wind that often blows from one week’s end to another across that high, active, resolute stretch of country.
Quotes with ACTIVE (3)
Hoarded things might easily become a menace; a mere fire-and-theft risk; a breeding-ground for destructive insects; a source of worry. Men would have plenty of anxieties, but there was no sense in accumulating worries over THINGS! That kind of worry destroyed your character. Even an unused coat, hanging in your closet — it wasn't merely a useless thing that did nobody any good; it was an active agent of destruction to your life. And your LIFE must be saved, at all costs. What…
Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or useful items to be sold on a small scale, in a common marketplace where their friends meet and barter. I and many of my friends own more than one spinning wheel. We grow our food again. We make pickles and jams on private, individual scales, when many of our mothers forgot those skills if they ever knew them. We come to conventions, we create small communities of support and distri…
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 126 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).