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say it: proh-AK-tiv
proactive is an adjective meaning "descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently". It carries 2 recorded senses.
descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently
“proactive inhibition”
“proactive interference”
psychology
(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
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for proactive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.