reactively
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5.3
- adverb
- /riˈæktɪvli/
:
de manera reactiva
- In a small town or district, it's going to be inevitable that at least some people will know a student is trans, so districts need to plan ahead rather than reactively respond to bigoted parents.
Being disarmed and being thrown off by this can lead you to sometimes behave more reactively and weaken your own cause.
- Being disarmed and being thrown off by this can lead you to sometimes behave more reactively and weaken your own cause.
- It seems like he's acting reactively, and what he could probably use is, like, family.
- Bonobos are less than chimpanzees on both of those, but still hundreds of times more reactively aggressive than than humans are.
Examples
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These school administrators might then use action research plans proactively as well as reactively to offer the best curriculum possible for each pupil.
Academic text (1996) -
Rather, I think it is reactively doing so.
Blog text (27) -
The bad guy, if armed with a gun, will most often shoot reactively towards the light source.
Blog text (3) -
While the world has moved in one direction of distortion, the Church has moved reactively in the other.
Academic text (2006) -
We have proved to be a nation that acts more reactively than preventively—in healthcare or crisis situations, for example.
Blog text (5) -
Even the United States—the first nation to build the bomb—did so, in a sense, reactively.
Academic text (2000) -
There is a lot to understand and no clear way of doing so, leaving a healthcare system operating reactively to acute diagnoses, as we react to acute climatic events, respectively.
Blog text (5) -
Their findings suggested that among children with conduct disorder, those with ADHD might in fact be reactively aggressive, whereas those without ADHD might be proactively aggressive.
Academic text (1999) -
Companies often respond reactively to customer complaints instead of taking preventive measures.
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The team handled the crisis reactively, addressing problems as they arose rather than planning ahead.
Synonyms
In a way that reacts quickly and kindly to people
Antonyms
How Reactive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reactively comes from the parts re- meaning 'again' and act meaning 'do', like in action and actor. That gives an easy picture: to act reactively is to do something in reply after an event happens, not to plan ahead.