full of energy and regularly doing physical or mental activities, rather than staying still or passive
Even at seventy, Maria stays active by walking five kilometers every morning.
The club encourages children to be active instead of playing video games all day.
✦ From Latin activus, meaning “doing, moving, energetic.”
working, operating, or happening now rather than stopped or finished
The volcano has been active for the past three days, spewing ash into the sky.
I have two credit cards, but only one of them is active.
the grammatical voice in which the subject does the action expressed by the verb
In the sentence “The cat chased the mouse,” the verb is in the active.
Teachers often tell students to change passive sentences into the active.
in a way that involves taking deliberate action, energy, or effort instead of just waiting passively
Maria is actively searching for a new apartment in the city.
The volunteers actively cleaned the beach all morning.
using the active voice rather than the passive voice in grammar
In the sentence "The dog chased the cat," the verb is used actively.
Teachers tell students to write actively to make their essays clearer.
Causing objects to move toward each other by a pulling force.
Gravity is an attractive force that keeps the planets in orbit.
Magnets have both repulsive and attractive sides.
