Action, n.
- 1. Activity, spontaneous process, exercise, motion, movement, play.
- 2. Deed (viewed as requiring a continued exertion of power), performance, feat, exploit, achievement,
procedure, proceeding, acting, turn.
- 3. Agency, operation, force, energy, influence, instrumentality, process.
- 4. Battle, engagement, conflict, contest, combat, rencontre, encounter, skirmish, brush, affair.
- 5. Gesticulation, gesture.
- 6. Acting, performing, performance, enacting, representing, representation, putting on the boards, playing.
- 7. Subject, fable, plot, series of events.
- 8. (Law.) Suit, lawsuit, process, case, prosecution.
Active, a.
- 1. Operative, operant, influential, efficient, effective, effectual, efficacious, living, vigorous, in action, in
operation, in actual process, in force, in vitality, valid.
- 2. Busy, diligent, assiduous, industrious, indefatigable, unremitting, laborious, sedulous, notable, at work,
hard at work, diligently employed, busily engaged.
- 3. Alert, nimble, agile, supple, brisk, dapper, stirring, smart, quick, prompt, ready, lively, sprightly, spirited.
See spry.
- 4. Enterprising, energetic, strong, efficient, in earnest, vigorous, full of life, animated, ebullient, fervent.
- 5. Drastic (as medicine), powerful, potent, effective, efficacious.
- 6. (Gram.) Transitive.
Activity, n.
- 1. Action, exercise, mode of action, mode of exercise.
- 2. Alertness, agility, nimbleness, smartness, briskness, sprightliness, spryness, etc. See active, 3.