prescriptive (redirected from prescriptiveness)

pre·scrip·tive  (pr-skrptv)

adj.

1. Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage.

2. Making or giving injunctions, directions, laws, or rules.

3. Law Acquired by or based on uninterrupted possession.

4. Linguistics Based on or establishing norms or rules indicating how a language should or should not be used rather than describing the ways in which a language is used.

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pre·scriptive·ly adv.

pre·scriptive·ness n.

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prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv]

adj

1. making or giving directions, rules, or injunctions

2. sanctioned by long-standing usage or custom

3. (Law) derived from or based upon legal prescription a prescriptive title

prescriptively  adv

prescriptiveness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

prescriptive - pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" normative grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) descriptive - describing the structure of a language; "descriptive grammar"

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prescriptive

adjective dictatorial, rigid, authoritarian, legislating, dogmatic, didactic, preceptive prescriptive attitudes to language on the part of teachers

Translations

prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] ADJ (Jur) [title] → legal; (= sanctioned by custom) → sancionado por la costumbre (Gram) → normativo

prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normatif/ive
pre-season preseason [ˌpriːˈsiːz^ən] modif [training, tournament, match, game, competition] → de présaison

prescriptive

adj → normativ; to be prescriptive → Vorschriften machen

prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normativo/a

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prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normativo/a