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English

Adjective

Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.

Synonyms

normative

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Prescriptive \Pre*scrip"tive\, a. [L. praescriptivus of a
demurrer or legal exception.]
1. (Law) Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or
long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right
of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long
custom.
[1913 Webster]

The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become
prescriptive. --J. M. Mason.
[1913 Webster]

2. Of or pertaining to the doctrine that acceptable
grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority,
rather than be determined by common usage.
[PJC]

WordNet prescriptive
adj 1: giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is
concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
[syn: normative] [ant: descriptive]
2: based on or prescribing a norm or standard; "normative
grammar" [syn: normative]

Moby Dictionary
absolute , accepted , accustomed , acknowledged , admitted ,
authoritarian , authoritative , autocratic , average , binding ,
canonical , commanding , common , commonplace , compelling , compulsory ,
conclusive , conformable , constrictive , consuetudinary ,
conventional , current , customary , decisive , decretal , decretive ,
decretory , dictated , dictating , dictatorial , didactic , directive ,
dogmatic , entailed , established , ethnocentric , everyday ,
exceptional , excluding , exclusive , exclusory , familiar , final ,
fixed , folk , formulary , generally accepted , habitual , hallowed ,
handed down , hard and fast , hard-and-fast , heroic , hoary ,
household , immemorial , imperative , imperious , imposed ,
inadmissible , instructive , insular , inveterate , irrevocable ,
jussive , legendary , long-established , long-standing , mandated ,
mandating , mandatory , must , mythological , narrow , normal ,
normative , obligating , obligatory , obtaining , of long standing ,
of the folk , official , oral , ordinary , overbearing , parochial ,
peremptory , popular , preceptive , preclusive , predominating ,
prescribed , prescript , prevailing , prevalent , preventive ,
prohibitive , received , recognized , regular , regulation , required ,
restrictive , rooted , rubric , seclusive , segregative , select ,
selective , separative , set , snobbish , standard , statutory , stock ,
time-honored , traditional , tried and true , true-blue , ultimate ,
understood , universal , unwritten , usual , venerable , vernacular ,
widespread , without appeal , wonted , worshipful , xenophobic