Lithe vs Active - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To go.
(obsolete) Mild; calm.
slim but not skinny
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Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber
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(obsolete) To become calm.
(obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
(obsolete) To give ear; attend; listen.
To listen to.
(Scotland) Shelter.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
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.
Lithe is a related term of active.
As verbs the difference between lithe and active
is that lithe is (obsolete) to go or lithe can be (obsolete) to become calm or lithe can be (obsolete) to give ear; attend; listen while active is .As an adjective lithe
is (obsolete) mild; calm.As a noun lithe
is (scotland) shelter.lithe
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lithe, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- ''lithe weather
- lithe body
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe , polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- the elephant’s lithe proboscis.
- … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
Synonyms
* lithesome, lissome,Etymology 3
From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) .Verb
(head)Etymology 4
From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(lith)Etymology 5
Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of (lewth).Noun
(en noun)- So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.