Astir

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  • adjective. Moving about; being in motion.
  • adjective. Having gotten out of bed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • On the stir; on the move; stirring; active.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. In motion; characterized by motion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. on the move
  • adjective. out of bed
  • Word Usage
    "* The pages were outlined by a thick black border and included a three-page biography that opened, Martin Luther King Jr. is like the great Yggdrasil tree, ‘whose roots,’ a poet said, ‘are deep in earth but in whose upper branches the stars of heaven are glowing and astir.’"
    cross-reference
    afloat  
    Equivalent
    active  awake  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ablaze  aflame  alight  articulate  awake  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    active  ago  moving  stirring