actively
In an active manner.
Adverb
- 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...
- In the active form; not passive.
- a word used actively
Antonyms: passively
Origin
From late Middle English actyvely; equivalent to active + -ly.