actively

In an active manner.

Adverb

  1. In an active manner.
    • He was actively listening.
    • She was actively working, not “sleeping on the job”.
    • Defying this, Western queer culture actively defuses from cisnormative values, yet in so doing may also fuse with their new, queernormative value constructs. - 2020, Alex Stitt, ACT for Gender Identity: The...
  2. In the active form; not passive.
    • a word used actively

    Antonyms: passively

Origin

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

Forms

more actively most actively

Derived

bioactively nonactively retroactively