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PROACTIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does proactive mean?
• PROACTIVE (adjective)
The adjective PROACTIVE has 2 senses:
1. descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently
2. (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens
Familiarity information: PROACTIVE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently
Context example:
proactive interference
Domain category:
psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)
Antonym:
retroactive (descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens
Similar:
active (disposed to take action or effectuate change)
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