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PROACTIVE
Definition of PROACTIVE
adjective
Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pro- + active; originally coined 1933 by Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort in a psychology paper, used in technical sense. Used in a popular context and sense (courage, perseverance) in 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning by neuropsychiatrist Viktor Emil Frankl, in the context of dealing with the Holocaust, as contrast with reactive.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PROACTIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 7, 28 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROACTIVE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEIOPRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PROACT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PROACTIVE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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