prescriptive
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Etymology edit
From Latin praescriptivus (“relating to a legal exception”), from praescript- (“directed in writing”), from the verb praescribere.
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Adjective edit
prescriptive (comparative more prescriptive, superlative most prescriptive)
- Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
- Synonym: normative
- Antonyms: (especially of grammar and usage) descriptive, proscriptive, nonprescriptive
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 8:
- For one thing, spoken language tends to be less subjected to prescriptive
pressures than written language, and hence is a less artificial medium of com-
munication (written language is often a kind of 'censored' version of spoken
language). [...]
Derived terms edit
- prescriptively
- prescriptiveness
- prescriptivism
- prescriptivist
- prescriptivity
- prescriptive ethics
- prescriptive grammar
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Translations edit
of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard
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prescriptive
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prescriptive