actively

actively

English

Etymology

active +‎ -ly

Adverb

actively (comparative more actively, superlative most actively)

1. In an active manner.
   • He was actively listening.
   • She was actively working, not "sleeping on the job".
2. (grammar) In the active form; not passive.

   Antonym: passively

   a word used actively

Derived terms

• retroactively

Translations

in an active manner

Arabic: بِنَشَاطٍ‎ (binašāṭin) Catalan: activament (ca) Czech: aktivně Esperanto: aktive Finnish: vilkkaasti (fi), aktiivisesti (fi) French: activement (fr) Galician: activamente

German: aktiv (de) Hungarian: aktívan (hu) Italian: attivamente (it) Kazakh: белсене (belsene) Portuguese: ativamente Russian: акти́вно (ru) (aktívno) Spanish: activamente (es), enérgicamente (es)

in the active form

Catalan: activament (ca) Finnish: aktiivisesti (fi) German: active

Latin: active Spanish: activamente (es)