Enterprising: alternatives and connections

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities;…

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing varie…

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute.

An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bol…

An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Compan…

An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him…

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchar…

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like…

Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; j…

To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as,…

An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an…

Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortu…

Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles,…

That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to b…

The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp.,…

The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar…