GERUNDIAL Antonyms

• tending to become more severe or wider in scope

• disposed to take action or effectuate change

• characterized by energetic activity

• exerting influence or producing a change or effect

• full of activity or engaged in continuous activity

• (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions

• expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:

• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

• (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting

• (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt

• engaged in full-time work

• chemical agent capable of activity

• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb

• a person who is a participating member of an organization

• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

• taking part in an activity

• in operation

• of or relating to or functioning as an adjective

• relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law

• a word that expresses an attribute of something

• the word class that qualifies nouns

• bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent

• (of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person

• relating to or formed with the infinitive

• (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive)

• being other than verbal communication

• lacking verbal skill

• involving little use of language

• a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

• the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

• of or relating to or consisting of participles

• a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses

• lacking in energy or will

• expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb

• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb

• peacefully resistant in response to injustice

• of or relating to or formed from words in general

• of or relating to or formed from a verb

• relating to or having facility in the use of words

• tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length

• communicated in the form of words

• expressed in spoken words