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enterprising

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Main Entry: enterprising
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: resourceful, energetic

Synonyms:

active, advancing, adventurous, aggressive, alert, ambitious, aspiring, audacious, bold, busy, coming on strong, craving, daring, dashing, diligent, driving, eager, enthusiastic, go-ahead, go-go, gumptious, hard ball, hardworking, hungry, hustling, industrious, intrepid, itching, keen, lively, lusting, peppy, progressive, pushing, ready, self-starting, snappy, spanking, spark plug, spirited, stirring, take-over, up-and-coming, venturesome, vigorous, yearning, zealous, zippy

Antonyms:

inactive, passive, unadventurous, unambitious, unenthused, unimaginative, unresourceful
Main Entry: active
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very involved in activity

Synonyms:

aggressive, agile, alert, alive, animated, assiduous, bold, brisk, bustling, busy, chipper, daring, dashing, determined, dexterous, diligent, dynamic, eager, energetic, engaged, enlivened, enterprising, enthusiastic, eventful, fireball, forceful, forcible, fresh, frisky, hard-working, high-spirited, hyper, industrious, intense, inventive, jumping, keen, lively, nimble, on the move, perky, persevering, purposeful, pushing, quick, rapid, ready, resolute, sharp, sprightly, spry, whiz*, zealous
Notes: active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads

Antonyms:

disinterested, idle, indifferent, lazy, quiescent, quiet
Main Entry: adventurous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: daring, risk-taking

Synonyms:

adventuresome, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, dangerous, daredevil, enterprising, foolhardy, hazardous, headstrong, intrepid, rash, reckless, risky, temerarious, venturesome, venturous

Antonyms:

careful, cautious, prudent, unadventurous
Main Entry: aggressive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: assertive

Synonyms:

assertory, bold, brassy, cheeky*, cocky*, come on, domineering, dynamic, energetic, enterprising, flip*, forceful, fresh*, get up and go, go after, hard sell, imperious, masterful, militant, nervy, pushing, pushy, sassy, shooting from the hip, smart alecky, smart*, strenuous, tough, vigorous, zealous

Antonyms:

complaisant, laid-back
Main Entry: ambitious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: desiring success

Synonyms:

aggressive, anxious, ardent, aspiring, avid, ball of fire, bent upon, climbing, come on, come on strong, designing, desirous, determined, driving, eager, eager beaver, earnest, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, fireball, get up and go, go-getter, goal-oriented, hard ball, high-reaching, hopeful, hungry, industrious, inspired, intent, longing, power-loving, purposeful, pushing, pushy*, resourceful, self-starting, sharp, soaring, striving, thirsty, vaulting, zealous

Antonyms:

content, fulfilled, satisfied, unassuming
Main Entry: audacious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reckless, daring

Synonyms:

adventurous, aweless, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky*, courageous, daredevil, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutty, intrepid, nervy, rash, resolute, risky, smart ass, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, valiant, venturesome

Antonyms:

cautious, gentle, humble, meek, mild, modest, reserved, timid, yielding
Main Entry: bold
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brave

Synonyms:

adventurous, assuming, audacious, aweless, bantam, courageous, daring, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, forward, gallant, heroic, intrepid, resolute, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous

Antonyms:

afraid, cowardly, fearful, meek, shy, timid, weak
Main Entry: businesslike
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: efficient, professional

Synonyms:

accomplished, careful, concentrated, correct, diligent, direct, disciplined, earnest, effective, enterprising, expeditious, hardworking, industrious, intent, matter-of-fact, methodical, orderly, organized, painstaking, practical, practiced, purposeful, regular, routine, sedulous, serious, skillful, systematic, thorough, well-ordered, workaday

Antonyms:

amateur, disorganized, inefficient, unbusinesslike, unprofessional
Main Entry: driving
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: forceful

Synonyms:

active, compelling, dynamic, energetic, enterprising, galvanic, impellent, lively, propulsive, sweeping, urging, vigorous, violent

Antonyms:

unforceful, weak, wimpy
Main Entry: dynamic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: active, vital

Synonyms:

activating, aggressive, changing, charismatic, coming on strong, compelling, driving, effective, electric, energetic, energizing, enterprising, forceful, forcible, go-ahead, go-getter, go-getting, highpowered, hyped-up, influential, intense, lively, lusty, magnetic, peppy*, play for keeps, play hard ball, potent, powerful, productive, progressive, red-blooded, strenuous, vehement, vigorous, vitalizing, zippy

Antonyms:

apathetic, boring, dull, inactive, passive, unexciting
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