actively

English

Etymology

From late Middle English actyvely; equivalent to active +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæktɪvli/
• Hyphenation: ac‧tive‧ly

• Audio (US):

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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”.

   • 2020, Alex Stitt, ACT for Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide‎^[1], page 202:

     Defying this, Western queer culture actively defuses from cisnormative values, yet in so doing may also fuse with their new, queernormative value constructs.

2. (grammar) In the active form; not passive.

   Antonym: passively

   a word used actively

Derived terms

• bioactively
• nonactively
• retroactively

 

Translations

in an active manner

• Arabic: بِنَشَاطٍ (binašāṭin)
• Armenian: ակտիվորեն (hy) (aktivoren)
• Catalan: activament (ca)
• Czech: aktivně (cs)
• Esperanto: aktive
• Finnish: vilkkaasti (fi), aktiivisesti (fi)
• French: activement (fr)
• Galician: activamente (gl)
• German: aktiv (de)
• Hungarian: aktívan (hu)
• Italian: attivamente (it)
• Kazakh: белсене (belsene)
• Polish: aktywnie (pl)
• Portuguese: ativamente (pt)
• Russian: акти́вно (ru) (aktívno)
• Spanish: activamente (es), enérgicamente (es)
• Swedish: aktivt (sv)

in the active form

• Catalan: activament (ca)
• Finnish: aktiivisesti (fi)
• German: active
• Latin: active
• Spanish: activamente (es)