HOW TO PRONOUNCE
actively
/ˈæktɪvli/
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What does actively mean?
adverb
- In an active manner.
- In the active form; not passive.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæktɪvli/
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While actively engaged in the House of Commons and in the courts of law, he still found leisure for letters and philosophy.
James Bellingham had been the adviser of her son throughout, and might be said to have actively promoted his connection with Lapham.
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He said nothing for a time, but stood looking at the picture, while the copyist began actively to dabble with her paint.
On the day after that, the legs do not move, but the antennae, the palpi and the ovipositor continue to flutter actively.
Meanwhile, in his conversation with Raffles, he had learned something momentous, something which entered actively into the struggle of his longings and terrors.