proactively

adverb

pro·​ac·​tive·​ly (ˌ)prō-ˈak-tiv-lē 

: in a proactive manner : in a way that anticipates future problems, needs, or changes

Leaders … can predict potential team challenges and address them proactively.

—Jimi Gibson

… a system that allows us to alert customers if there's an issue with travel, whether their flight is delayed or proactively letting them know there is a transit strike in New York, or whatever.

—Steven Barnhart

By working proactively with charter organizations and other outside groups, district leaders could take a role in shaping the array of new alternative schools so that it benefits students most …

—Los Angeles Times

Examples of proactively in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Johnston suggested the university could do better about proactively keeping residents informed of upcoming building projects and events that might be disruptive. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026

Good governance involves clean financial reporting, regulatory discipline, transparency, and proactively addressing issues. — Bythad L. Bench, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Spotify will allow artists to proactively disclose a profile is an AI Persona, but for those who don’t, the platform’s human moderators will do it themselves after a review using their own AI tools. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026

Sakkas predicts that consensus will shift toward more proactively testing sperm in the case of repeat miscarriage, especially as companies offer increasingly sophisticated and lower-cost DNA testing. — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for proactively

• attractively
• actively
• interactively
• retroactively
• radioactively