pro-actively

Other spellings

• proactively

Adverb

Positive pro-actively

Comparative more pro-actively

Superlative most pro-actively

1. When you do something pro-actively, you do it ahead of time, because that will help prevent or solve a problem.

   Our school started a program that pro-actively identifies students that might need extra help. This works much better than waiting for a student to have problems learning before we try to help.

   When she was too sick to work, Siobhan worried that she would forget her job skills. So she pro-actively studied and practiced those skills to keep herself from forgetting them.

Antonyms

• retroactively

Related words

• proactive
• proactivity