reactiveadjective
uk/riˈæk.tɪv/us/riˈæk.tɪv/reacting to events or situations rather than acting first to change or prevent something:
Unfortunately, the police have dealt with the problem of car theft in a reactive rather than a proactive way.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reacting and responding
- backlash
- bite
- bite back (at sb/sth)
- chain reaction
- counteract
- greet
- knob
- react
- recoil
- reflexively
- respond
- response
- responsive
- rise
- rise to the occasion/challenge idiom
- sensitive
- shock wave
- strike
- wake (sb) up
- worm
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reactively
adverb /riˈæk.tɪv.li//riˈæk.tɪv.li/
Anticipating changes enables us to manage proactively rather than reactively.
These children are reactively aggressive, but not proactively aggressive.