Proactive

Etymology

 * originally coined 1933 by Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort in a psychology paper, used in technical sense. Used in a popular context and sense (courage, perseverance) in 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning by neuropsychiatrist, in the context of dealing with the Holocaust, as contrast with reactive:. Popularized in the US in the 1970s in management and business setting by.

Adjective

 * 1)  Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty
 * We can deal with each problem as it pops up, or we can take a proactive stance and try to prevent future problems.

Synonyms

 * anticipatory
 * forward-looking

Antonyms

 * reactive

Derived terms

 * proactively
 * proactivity
 * proactiveness

Related terms

 * proact
 * proactor

Translations

 * Arabic: وقائي, استباق الاحداث
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Proaktiv
 * Dutch: proactief
 * Finnish: proaktiivinen, ennakoiva
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: előrelátó, proaktív
 * Italian:


 * Korean: 주도적
 * Persian: پیش فعال
 * Romanian: proactiv
 * Russian: проактивный
 * Serbian: proaktivan
 * Spanish: precavida, preventiva
 * Telugu: ముందెత్తున (muMdettuna)
 * Thai: การป้องกัน(ล่วงหน้า)
 * Ukrainian: проактивний, запобігливий