| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being active |
Synonyms: |
action, activeness, animation, bustle, enterprise, exercise, exertion, hustle, labor, life, liveliness, motion, movement |
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idleness, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, sluggishness |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special interest or pursuit |
Synonyms: |
act, avocation, bag*, ballgame, bit*, deed, endeavor, enterprise, entertainment, game, hobby, job, labor, occupation, pastime, project, racket, scene*, scheme, stunt, task, trip, undertaking, venture, work, zoo |
Antonyms: |
hate |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
acting, light, Rabelaisian, activable, active, afoot, agile, agoing, alert, alive, alive and frisking, animated, assiduous, astir, at call, at work, brisk, brisk as a bee, brisk as a lark, broad awake, businesslike, bustling, busy, busy as a bee, busy as a hen with one chicken, diligent, do, doing, enterprising, eventful, expeditious, extradictionary, fast, forward, frisky, full of business, fussy, in action, in earnest, in full swing, in harness, in operation, indefatigable, industrious, intent, meddlesome, meddling, motatorious, never tired, nimble, nimble as a squirrel, notable, nutational, occupied, officious, on duty, on the alert, on the anvil, overofficious, painstaking, pantopragmatic, plodding, pottering, pushing, quick, quick as a lamplighter, resolute, restless, restless as a hyena, sedulous, sharp, smart, spirited, sprack, spry, stirring, strenuous, tripping, undertaking, unsleeping, unwearied, up and doing, vivacious, wide awake, work a day, working, zealous
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| Concept: | Activity. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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-nouns
activity; briskness, liveliness; animation, life, vivacity, spirit, dash, energy; snap, vim., nimbleness, agility; smartness, quickness; velocity, [more]; alacrity, promptitude; despatch, dispatch; expedition; haste; punctuality (early)., eagerness, zeal, ardor, perfervidum aingenium, empressement, earnestness, intentness; abandon; vigor (physical energy); devotion (resolution); exertion., industry, assiduity; assiduousness; sedulity; laboriousness; drudgery (labor); painstaking, diligence; perseverance; indefatigation; habits of business., vigilance; wakefulness; sleeplessness, restlessness; insomnia; pervigilium, insomnium; racketing., movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget, fidgetiness; flurry (haste)., officiousness; dabbling, meddling; interference, interposition, intermeddling; tampering with, intrigue., press of business, no sinecure, plenty to do, many irons in the fire, great doings, busy hum of men, battle of life, thick of the action., housewife, busy bee; new brooms; sharp fellow, sharp blade; devotee, enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank; hummer, hustler, live man [U.S.], rustler [U.S.].
-verbs
be active; busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll (labor); plod, persist (persevere); keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling., look sharp; have all one's eyes about one (vigilance) [more]; rise, arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march, kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity lose no time, not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash off; make haste; do one's best take pains (exert oneself) [more]; do wonders, work wonders., have many irons in the fire, have one's hands full, have much on one's hands; have other things to do, have other fish to fry; be busy; not have a moment to spare, not have a moment that one can call one's own., have one's fling, run the round of; go all lengths, stick at nothing, run riot., outdo; overdo, overact, overlay, overshoot the mark; make a toil of a pleasure., have a hand in (act in); take an active part, put in one's oar, have a finger in the pie, mix oneself up with, trouble, one's head about, intrigue; agitate., tamper with, meddle, moil; intermeddle, interfere, interpose; obtrude; poke one's nose in, thrust one's nose in.
-adjectives
active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated, vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, rited, stirring., nimble, nimble as a squirrel; agile; light-footed, nimble-footed; featly, tripping., quick, prompt, yare, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart; fast (swift); quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad awake; go-ahead, live [U.S.] wide-awake (intelligent) [more]., forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest; resolute., industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking; intent (attention); indefatigable (persevering); unwearied; unsleeping, never tired; plodding, hardworking; businesslike, workaday., bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering; busy, busy as hen with one chicken., working, at work, on duty, in harness; up in arms; on one's legs, at call; up and doing, up and stirring., busy, occupied; hard at work, hard at it; up to one's ears in, full of business, busy as a bee.
-adverbs
-phrases
carpe diem [Latin: sieze the day] (opportunity) [more]; nulla dies sine linea [Pliny]; nec mora nec requies [Vergil]; the plot thickens; No sooner said than done (early); "veni vidi vici" [Suetonius]; catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig [German]; dictum ac factum [Terence] schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter[German: hard work in youth means soft rest in age]; "the busy hum of
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Antonyms: |
inactivity |
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| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
Synonyms: |
activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, ballgame, big idea, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise, flurry, force, functioning, game, going, happening, haste, hoopla*, hopper, in the works, industry, life, liveliness, motion, movement, occupation, operation, plan, power, process, proposition, racket, reaction, response, rush, scene, spirit, stir, stunt, trip, turmoil, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity |
Antonyms: |
cessation, idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, repose, rest, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | addict |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has compulsion toward |
Synonyms: |
activity, buff, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend, follower, freak*, habitué, hound, junkie, nut, often injurious aficionado, practitioner, zealot |
| Notes: | an edict is a formal or authoritative proclamation; an addict is someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or someone who is a devoted supporter or fan |
| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrumentality |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, auspices, channel, efficiency, force, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intercession, intervention, means, mechanism, mediation, medium, operation, organ, vehicle, work |
| Main Entry: | agility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental nimbleness, deftness |
Synonyms: |
activity, acuteness, adroitness, alacrity, alertness, briskness, celerity, cleverness, dexterity, dispatch, expedition, fleetness, friskiness, litheness, liveliness, promptitude, promptness, quickness, quickwittedness, sharpness, sprightliness, spryness, suppleness, swiftness |
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clumsiness, stiffness |
| Main Entry: | department |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of interest, expertise |
Synonyms: |
activity, administration, assignment, avocation, bailiwick, berth, bureau, business, capacity, class, classification, domain, dominion, duty, field, function, incumbency, jurisdiction, line, niche, occupation, office, province, realm, responsibility, slot, specialty, sphere, spot, station, vocation, walk of life, wing |
| Main Entry: | diligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance in carrying out action |
Synonyms: |
activity, alertness, application, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attentiveness, briskness, care, carefulness, constancy, earnestness, exertion, heed, heedfulness, industry, intensity, intent, intentness, keenness, laboriousness, pertinacity, quickness, sedulousness, vigor |
Antonyms: |
inactivity, indifference, laziness, lethargy, neglect |