Entry Word: active

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 being in effective operation <the abandoned factory had not been active for years>

Synonyms alive, functional, functioning, going, living, on, operating, operational, operative, running, working

Related Words effective, effectual; employable, operable, usable, viable, workable; performing, producing, productive, serving, useful, yielding; astir, bustling, busy, dynamic, flourishing, humming, roaring, thriving

Phrases in commission

Near Antonyms deactivated, decommissioned; ineffective, ineffectual, useless; inoperable, unusable, unworkable; arrested, asleep, dormant, fallow, idle, inert, latent, lifeless, nonproductive, quiescent, sleepy, stagnating, unproductive, vegetating

Antonyms broken, dead, inactive, inoperative, nonfunctional, nonfunctioning, nonoperating

2 having much high-spirited energy and movement <the fish are active today, but we still havenʼt caught anything> — see lively 1
3 involved in often constant activity <all morning the crowd at the coffeehouse kept Marion and her helper pretty active> — see busy 1