instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart;
fast &c. (swift) 274; quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad awake; go-ahead, live wide-awake &c. (intelligent) 498[U.S.].
     forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest; resolute
&c. 604.
     industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking;
intent &c. (attention) 457; indefatigable &c. (persevering) 604a; unwearied; unsleeping[obs3], never tired; plodding, hard-working &c. 686; businesslike, workaday.
     bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering;
busy, busy as hen with one chicken.
     working, at work, on duty, in harness; up in arms; on one’s legs, at
call; up and doing, up and stirring.
     busy, occupied; hard at work, hard at it; up to one’s ears in, full of
business, busy as a bee, busy as a one-armed paperhanger.
     meddling &c. v.; meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious[obs3],
intrigant[obs3].
     astir, stirring; agoing[obs3], afoot; on foot; in full swing;
eventful; on the alert, &c. (vigilant) 459. 
     Adv. actively &c. adj.; with life and spirit, with might and main &c.
686,with haste &c. 684, with wings; full tilt, in mediis rebus[Lat]. 
     Int. be alive, look alive, look sharp! move on, push on! keep moving!
go ahead! stir your stumps! age quod agis[Lat]! jaldi[obs3]! karo[obs3]! step lively! 
     Phr. carpe diem &c. (opportunity) 134[Latin:  seize the day]; nulla
dies sine linea [Latin][Pliny]; nec mora nec requies [Latin][Vergil]; the plot thickens; No sooner said than done &c. (early) 132; “veni vidi vici” [Lat][Suetonius]; catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig [obs3][German]; dictum ac factum [Lat][Terence]; schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter[German:  hard work in youth means soft rest in age]; “the busy hum of men” [Milton].

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     #683.  Inactivity. —­ N. inactivity; inaction &c. 681; inertness &c.
172; obstinacy &c. 606. lull &c. (cessation) 142; quiescence &c. 265; rust, rustiness.
     idleness, remissness &c. adj.; sloth, indolence, indiligence[obs3];
dawdling &c. v. ergophobia[obs3], otiosity[obs3].
     dullness &c. adj.; languor; segnity|, segnitude|; lentor[obs3];
sluggishness &c. (slowness) 275; procrastination &c. (delay) 133; torpor, torpidity, torpescence[obs3]; stupor &c. (insensibility) 823; somnolence; drowsiness &c. adj.; nodding &c. v.; oscitation[obs3], oscitancy[obs3]; pandiculation[obs3], hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness[obs3], heavy eyelids.
     sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus;
Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis[obs3], dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology[obs3].
     dull work; pottering; relaxation &c. (loosening) 47; Castle of
Indolence.
     [Cause of inactivity] lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic,