prescriptive
5
7.3
- adjective
- /prɪˈskrɪptɪv/
:
prescriptivo
- Successful collaboration depends upon the ability to learn together rather than to take a prescriptive and censorious attitude.
- prescriptive and descriptive
- prescriptive literature
- prescriptive principles
I've never thought about diet as a prescriptive thing for others.
- I've never thought about diet as a prescriptive thing for others.
- I have to confess, I rarely publish a prescriptive book.
- We could leave around the teachers, I suppose, so long as they're, they're not too prescriptive right now.
- They're descriptive, not prescriptive in the sense that they describe the possible outcomes.
- Because actually the, the things that make us happy can be much more subtle and less prescriptive than the things that feed our ego in some way.
- He does that a lot, by the way, man, if it's repeated in the New Testament, then it's prescriptive.
- So I think that's an example of that kind of thing without any pressure for it to be prescriptive.
- I don't really see a need for having a prescriptive purpose.
- So it it's prescriptive where glass castles was just more of a drama.
- And we give it give them, you know, prescriptive sentencing.
Examples
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I like how simple the diet is where it's not too prescriptive on the types of foods you have to eat.
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As with other syllabuses, the prescriptive element is kept to a minimum.
Academic text (1993) -
And the fact that we all are very unique individuals, unfortunately makes these prescriptive like rules for people to follow.
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The quality movement is a prescriptive approach to the design of the work.
Academic text (1992) -
Testing procedures are highly prescriptive, with their accompanying objectives which dictate what is taught.
Academic text (2012) -
Pinker points out that "once introduced, a prescriptive rule is very hard to eradicate, no matter how ridiculous."
Academic text (2008) -
The benchmark texts in Table 2 are intended to be illustrative rather than prescriptive.
Academic text (2013) -
So we distinguish quite sharply the prescriptive from both the normative on the one side and the descriptive on the other.
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The current version reflects dramatic "streamlining" from early versions; most prescriptive language and overlapping areas have been eliminated.
Academic text (1995) -
Many government grants are highly prescriptive about how funds must be allocated and spent.
Synonyms
14
7.4
About rules or ideas that say how people should behave
1
7.9
Supporting strict rules about language and grammar
Antonyms
- Specialized
5
4.2
About how people actually use a language rather than how they should use it
Compounds
- Specialized
A set of rules saying how people should use a language rather than how they actually speak
- Specialized
A study of language that tells people how to use it correctly
How Prescriptive
58
7.5
359
3.2
5
7.3
- Formal
48
4.2
- Jargon
14
4.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prescriptive comes from the old parts pre- 'before' and scrib- 'to write'. So a prescriptive rule is like something 'written before' an action to tell people how they should behave.