Active Word Meaning

Middle English (in the sense ‘preferring action to contemplation’): from Latin activus, from act- ‘done’, from the verb agere

engaging or ready to engage in physically energetic pursuits

physically energetic

• although he was seventy he was still robust and active

pursuing an occupation or activity at a particular place or in a particular way

pursuing activity

• the artist was active in the 1920s
• tigers are active mainly at night
• a politically active student body
• sexually active teenagers

(of a thing) working; operative

functioning

• the old watermill was active until 1960

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).

denoting verb

an active form of a verb.

form of verb