actively

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
active/ˈaktɪv/

▶adjective

• 1 moving or tending to move about vigorously or frequently.

  ■ (of a person's mind or imagination) alert and lively.

• 2 participating in a particular sphere or activity.

• 3 working or in operation.

• 4 Grammar denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject is typically the person or thing performing the action and which can take a direct object (e.g. she loved him as opposed to he was loved). The opposite of passive.

• 5 (of a volcano) erupting or having erupted in historical times.

• 6 (of a disease) not in remission or latent.

• 7 having a chemical or biological effect on something.

• 8 (of an electric circuit) capable of modifying its state or characteristics automatically in response to input or feedback.

▶noun Grammar an active form of a verb.

– derivatives
actively adverb.

– origin ME: from L. activus, from act-, agere ‘act, do’.