active

• absorbed
• aggressive
• agile
• agog
• airy
• alert
• alive
• animate
• animated
• assiduous
• astir
• at work
• awake
• boisterous
• bold
• bouncing
• bright
• brisk
• bubbly
• buoyant
• bustling
• busy
• buzzing
• cheerful
• chipper
• chirpy
• chirrupy
• concentrating
• dapper
• daring
• dashing
• determined
• dexterous
• diligent
• dynamic
• eager
• ebullient
• effective
• effectual
• effervescent
• efficacious
• employable
• employed
• energetic
• engaged
• engrossed
• enlivened
• enterprising
• enthusiastic
• eventful
• exertive
• exuberant
• fireball
• flourishing
• flowing
• focused
• focussed
• forceful
• forcible
• fresh
• frisky
• frolicsome
• functional
• functioning
• gay
• going
• happening
• hard-working
• hardworking
• hasty
• high-spirited
• high-strung
• hopping
• humming
• hyper
• immersed
• impelling
• impish
• in commission
• in force
• in gear
• in play
• in process
• indefatigable
• industrious
• intense
• intent
• into commission
• inventive
• jaunty
• jazzy
• jumping
• keen
• kinetic
• knee-deep
• laborious
• live
• lively
• living
• mettlesome
• mobile
• movable
• moving
• nervous
• nimble
• occupied
• on
• on line
• on the go
• on the move
• open-eyed
• operable
• operating
• operational
• operative
• peppy
• performing
• perky
• persevering
• pert
• pixieish
• pizazzy
• pizzazzy
• playful
• preoccupied
• producing
• productive
• progressive
• purposeful
• pushing
• quick
• racy
• rapid
• ready
• resolute
• restless
• roaring
• rolling
• running
• rushing
• rustling
• sedulous
• serving
• sharp
• shifting
• simmering
• skittish
• snappy
• spanking
• sparkly
• sparky
• speeding
• speedy
• spiffy
• spirited
• sprightly
• springy
• spry
• streaming
• swamped
• swarming
• thriving
• tied-up
• tireless
• traveling
• turning
• untiring
• up
• upbeat
• usable
• useable
• useful
• viable
• vibrant
• vigorous
• vital
• vivacious
• walking
• whiz
• wide-awake
• workable
• working
• yielding
• zealous
• zippy

• abeyant
• afraid
• apathetic
• arrested
• asleep
• boring
• broken
• calm
• cowardly
• deactivated
• dead
• decommissioned
• disinterested
• dispirited
• dormant
• dull
• fallow
• fixed
• free
• idle
• ignorant
• immobile
• impassive
• inactive
• inanimate
• indifferent
• indolent
• ineffective
• ineffectual
• inert
• inoperable
• inoperative
• irksome
• irresolute
• kaput
• kaputt
• lackadaisical
• languid
• languishing
• languorous
• latent
• lazy
• leaden
• lethargic
• lifeless
• limp
• listless
• meek
• nonactivated
• nonfunctional
• nonfunctioning
• nonoperating
• nonoperational
• nonoperative
• nonproductive
• passive
• phlegmatic
• quiescent
• quiet
• sleepy
• slow
• sluggish
• spiritless
• stagnating
• stolid
• stupid
• tedious
• tired
• torpid
• unambitious
• unbusy
• uneducated
• unemployed
• unenthusiastic
• unmovable
• unoccupied
• unproductive
• unusable
• unworkable
• unworking
• useless
• vapid
• vegetating
• weak
• weary

• noun
  1. A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting.
  2. Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering).
• adjective
  1. Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
  2. Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.
  3. In action; actually proceeding; working; in force.
  4. Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy.
  5. Requiring or implying action or exertion.
  6. Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative.
  7. Brisk; lively.
  8. Implying or producing rapid action.
  9. (heading, grammar) About verbs.
  10. (of source code) Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter.
  11. Not passive.
  12. (gay sexual slang) (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner.

• She tries to stay active by jogging every morning.
• The volcano has been active for the past three months.
• He plays an active role in community service projects.
• The baby became more active after taking a nap.
• They're looking for active participants in the new program.

laborious

racy

ultraefficient

ultrapractical

zestful

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