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

In other words, the system did not proactively address the issue. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026

Colleges proactively cut and consolidated more a fifth of the state's degrees, impacting fields ranging from dance to biotechnology. —Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 9 Jan. 2026

Those answers were developed more by necessity than proactively. —Daniel Popper, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026

Wife, mother of two and children’s book author Victoria Scott-Miller recognized this urgency firsthand and decided to proactively do something about it. —Essence, 7 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for proactively

• interactively
• retroactively
• actively
• attractively
• radioactively