(adj): advancing in severity
(adj): prenominal) -- (engaged in or ready for military or naval operations
(adj): vs. nonoperational) -- ((military) of or intended for or involved in military operations
(adj): vs. passive) -- (disposed to take action or effectuate change
(adj): advocating or engaged in activism
(adj): involving active participation
(adj): (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens
(adj): taking part in an activity
(adj): vs. uninvolved) -- (connected by participation or association or use
(adj): vs. inactive) -- (characterized by energetic activity
(adj): predicate), astir(predicate) -- (on the move
(adj): vigorously active
(adj): moving quickly and lightly
(adj): marked by excited activity
(adj): more active than normal
(adj): predicate) -- ((of a person) very busy and active
(adj): appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport
(adj): vs. inactive) -- (exerting influence or producing a change or effect
(adj): rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive
(adj): opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action
(adj): capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid; used especially of detergents
(adj): vs. inactive) -- (full of activity or engaged in continuous activity
(adj): very active
(adj): full of energetic and noisy activity
(adj): crowded with or characterized by much activity
(adj): prenominal) -- (in full operation
(adj): ready for business
(adj): (of movements) light and confidently active
(adj): predicate) -- (in operation
(adj): vs. nonexistent), existing -- (having existence or being or actuality
(adj): vs. quiet) -- ((of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions
(adj): vs. passive) -- (expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions"
(adj): vs. stative), dynamic -- ((used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being
(adj): vs. extinct) -- ((of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting
(adj): capable of erupting
(adj): vs. dormant) -- ((of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt
(adj): actively spewing out lava
(adj): vs. inactive) -- (engaged in full-time work
(adj): (military) set up and placed on active assignment
(n): chemical agent capable of activity
(n): an agent that produces chemical reactions
(n): the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb
(n): (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
(n): a person who is a participating member of an organization
(n): a human being
