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prescriptive

pre·scrip·tive

prescriptive

 
 
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.
Word Combinations  About this feature
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  [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: prescriptively (adv.), prescriptiveness (n.)