0 in a way that reacts to events or situations, rather than acting first to change or prevent something:
Anticipating changes enables us to manage proactively rather than reactively.
These children are reactively aggressive, but not proactively aggressive.
We should correct issues before problems arise, rather than reactively trying to minimize the impact of the problems after they begin.
Many of the present activities of the press are carried out reactively, in response to immediate situations
These kind of situations may justify the use of force, not just reactively but preventively.
Reactively adapting chosen strategies (supporting the reactiveness aspect).
An ability to change planned strategies reactively depending on intermediate results is also a must and such adaptations should also be remembered for future use.
The two reactively aggressive groups displayed less accuracy at detecting peers' benign intentions, and instead, overinterpreted hostile intent.
When the peer's intent was ambiguous, the reactively aggressive groups were more likely than the other groups to attribute hostile intent.
Subsequently, during design, they would learn reactively by observing the intermediate results of the system and through interacting with it.
