proactive

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /pɹəʊˈæk.tɪv/    美 /pɹoʊˈæk.tɪv/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more proactive comparative most proactive superlative

词汇关系

反义词
reactive

词源

From pro- + active; 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 Viktor Emil Frankl, in the context of dealing with the Holocaust, as contrast with reactive.
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