Preventive and Proactive

Preventive adjective - Concerned with or serving to keep something from happening.

Proactive and preventive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Proactive" instead an adjective "Preventive".

Nearby Words: prevent, prevented, prevention, preventing, preventable

Proactive adjective - (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens.

Preventive and proactive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Preventive" instead an adjective "Proactive".