Expeditious vs Active - What's the difference?
expeditious | active | Related terms |
Fast, prompt, speedy.
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(of a process or thing) Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
* 1816 , , The Antiquary , vol. 1, ch. 7,
* 1844 , , Barry Lyndon , ch. 14,
Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
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Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.
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In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; — opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct.
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# Being an active volcano.
Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; — opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
Requiring or implying action or exertion;—opposed to sedentary or to tranquil.
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Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; — opposed to speculative or theoretical.
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Brisk; lively.
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Implying or producing rapid action.
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About verbs.
#Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.
#Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
#Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
(lb) (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner.
Expeditious is a related term of active.
As an adjective expeditious
is fast, prompt, speedy.As a verb active is
.expeditious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious !—I believe we drive faster than any body.
- As they thus pressed forward, longing doubtless to exchange the easy curving line, which the sinuosities of the bay compelled them to adopt, for a straighter and more expeditious path, Sir Arthur observed a human figure on the beach.
- Now, there was a sort of rough-and-ready law in Ireland in those days, which was of great convenience to persons desirous of expeditious justice.