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active
Part of speech: AdverbActively.
Part of speech: AdjectiveHaving or using the power or quality of motion or force; lively; busy; moving freely or quickly; in grammar, denoting the voice or form of the verb which represents the subject as a doer of something.
Part of speech: NounActiveness.
Usage examples "active":- He was still a young, bright and active man, but thirty- seven years of age. - "Sixty Years of California Song", Margaret Blake-Alverson.
- I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. - "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.
- You have been very active. - "An Anarchist Woman", Hutchins Hapgood.