Proactive vs. Predictive: What's the Difference?
Proactive and Predictive Definitions
Proactive
Acting in advance to deal with an expected difficulty; anticipatory
Proactive steps to prevent terrorism.
Predictive
To state, tell about, or make known in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge
Predicted an active hurricane season because of warmer ocean-surface temperatures.
Proactive
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.
Predictive
To foretell something.
Proactive
Descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently;
Proactive inhibition
Proactive interference
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Predictive
Useful in predicting.
The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
Proactive
(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
Predictive
(computing) Describing a predictor.
Predictive
(medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.
Predictive
(grammar) A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. "if it rains, the game will be cancelled", "give her an inch and she'll take a mile.").
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Predictive
(statistics) Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.
Predictive
Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding.
Predictive
Of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions
