English dictionary · adj

actual

relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical

Meaning and definitions

1. relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical
2. Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact.
3. in action at the time being; now existing; current.

Connected roots

• ag-

  doing, driving

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These words share a recorded root connection. A shared root is a learning clue; it does not establish every step in a word’s history.

• action

  The effort of performing or doing something.

• active

  Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.

• agent

  a person who acts on behalf of another

• actor

  Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.

• react

  to respond to something

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