Home › Words › A › actativeactative/ˈæktətɪv/actative means serving to act.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, actative ranks #2,614 of 42,762 for Qualifying.actative is pronounced /ˈæktətɪv/.EtymologyFrom act + -ative.adjServing to act.nounSomething that serves to act.e.g.“Whose are these hands? Are they really Blanchot’s? How could Blanchot be so careless as to reinstate the actative of “writing” when all action had given way to absence?” — 2005, Dimitris Vardoulakis, “"What terrifying complicity" Jean Paul as Colocutor”, in Leslie Hill, Brian Nelson, Dimitris Vardoulakis, editors, After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy, UniveDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.actable 72% match — Able to be acted, as by an actor. vs actative →active 72% match — Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives. vs actative →activatory 71% match — That acts as an activator. vs actative →actuous 71% match — active; acting to produce some effect vs actative →exercitive 70% match — Having the character of an exercitive act. vs actative →enactory 70% match — Serving to enact something, such as a law. vs actative →actantial 69% match — Relating to actants. vs actative →activative 69% match — Of or pertaining to the grammatical case used to indicate a noun that is subject to a mental or metaphysical state that could hypothetically lead to an action. vs actative →