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- pronunciation:
- prih
skrIp
tihv
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
part of speech: |
adjective |
definition 1: |
that prescribes; setting down rules.
According to a prescriptive view of grammar, it is incorrect to say "different than" rather than "different from." |
definition 2: |
derived from legal prescription or long use or custom.
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related words: |
didactic, imperative, standard |
adverb + (adj.)prescriptive
either, highly, increasingly, less, necessarily, overly, rigidly, similarly, therefore
(adj.)prescriptive
+ noun
account,
advice,
agenda,
aim,
alliance,
analysis,
apparatus,
approach,
article,
aspect,
authority,
autism,
basis,
behavior,
checklist,
code,
comment,
commitment,
concept,
conclusion,
content,
contract,
counseling,
criteria,
critique,
curriculum,
definition,
detail,
dictum,
distinction,
dose,
element,
emission,
ethics,
feedback,
focus,
formula,
framework,
grammar,
grammarian,
guide,
guideline,
implication,
innovation,
instruction,
interrelation,
intervention,
jurisdiction,
lack,
language,
lens,
literature,
mandate,
manual,
marriage,
medication,
medicine,
method,
mode,
model,
mural,
nature,
norm,
notion,
others,
painting,
pedagogy,
planning,
poetics,
principle,
procedure,
promise,
proposition,
regulation,
requirement,
rule,
solution,
standard,
statement,
strategy,
survey,
teaching,
technique,
term,
testing,
text,
theory,
tone,
truth,
understanding,
uniform,
virtue,
writing,
zoning
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derivations: |
prescriptively (adv.), prescriptiveness (n.) |
The word prescriptive
contains the following part:
scrib, script
Latin
root
that means to write
  Example words:
ascribe, ascription, circumscribe, conscript, conscription, describe, description, descriptive, escritoire, imprescriptible, indescribable, inscribe, inscription, manuscript, nondescript, oversubscribe, postscript, prescribe, prescript, prescriptible, prescription, prescriptive, proscribe, proscription, rescript, scribal, scribble, scribbler, scribe1, scrip, script, scriptorium, scriptural, Scripture, scriptwriter, scrivener, subscribe, subscript, subscription, superscribe, superscript, transcribe, transcript, transcriptase, typescript
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