Definition for Prescriptive:

• giving directives or rules; " prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"

Synonyms for Prescriptive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • normative.
  •customary (adjective)
  • by the numbers,
  • popular,
  • chronic,
  • common,
  • ordinary,
  • wonted,
  • universal,
  • Stipulated,
  • normal,
  • conventional,
  • regular,
  • Familiar,
  • regulation,
  • playing it safe,
  • sop,
  • according to hoyle,
  • traditional,
  • recognized,
  • understood,
  • standard,
  • household,
  • accustomed,
  • orthodox,
  • routine,
  • confirmed,
  • fashionable,
  • established,
  • general,
  • acknowledged.
  •prescribed (adjective)
  • ethical,
  • Thetical,
  • recommended,
  • Magistral,
  • arbitrary,
  • thetic.
  •prescriptive (adjective)
  • accepted,
  • sanctioned.

• n.

  •
  • dictatorial,
  • on someone's back,
  • intrusive.
  •
  • concordance,
  • rule.
  •authoritarian (noun)
  • cut-and-dried,
  • rigid,
  • determined.
  •prescriptive (noun)
  • received.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • interfering,
  • syntactic,
  • meddlesome,
  • sentential,
  • generative grammar,
  • pushy,
  • semantic,
  • autocratic,
  • reformulate,
  • domineering,
  • universal grammar,
  • preachy,
  • hypercorrection,
  • grammarian,
  • parse.
  •
  • grammar,
  • semantics,
  • grammatical,
  • nagging,
  • authoritative,
  • syntax.
  •
  • exacting,
  • magisterial.

Paraphrases for Prescriptive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    normative.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    regulatory, coercive, standards-related, mandatory, prescribed, peremptory, constraining, binding, imperative, stringent, compulsory, burdensome, statutory, obligatory, policy-making.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    restrictive, standard-setting, Prescribing, legislative, indicative, norm-setting, policy-oriented, directive, rigid, requirement.

Antonyms for Prescriptive:

• adj.

  • all
    descriptive.
  • Other antonyms:
    ultramodern, updated, modernistic, untraditional, unconventional, new, hot, uncustomary, modern, contemporary, nontraditional, revolutionary, space age, new age, unprecedented, present-day, state of the art, nonorthodox, mod, futuristic, current, new-fashioned, up-to-date, original, progressive, red hot, nonconformist, newfangled, latest, unusual, unorthodox, modernized, high-tech.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    Proscriptive.

Prescriptive Sentence Examples:

• No merely prescriptive external rules, borrowed from society when the mothers were girls, can fully answer the purpose.

• Moreover, as Mistress of the Sea, the especial symbol of the Soul, she has a prescriptive claim to be the vehicle of the latest and crowning message to earth, of which the Soul herself is at once the source, the subject, and the object.