OSCITANCE 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

• engaged in or accustomed to close observation

• condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action

• a warning serves to make you more alert to danger

• an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

• quick and energetic

• mentally perceptive and responsive

• warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness

• the process of paying close and continuous attention

• a state of readiness to respond

• lively attentiveness

• paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

• the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others

• the trait of being observant and paying attention

• having knowledge of

• state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

• the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

• (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs

• forceful exertion

• enterprising or ambitious drive

• an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

• a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

• any source of usable power

• general activity and motion

• animation and energy in action or expression

• the act of arousing an organism to action

• any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

• (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)

• mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse

• a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world

• a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep

• the process of paying close and continuous attention

• the process of paying close and continuous attention

• vigilant attentiveness