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prescriptive
DEFINITIONS OF:
prescriptive
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adj
pertaining to giving directives or rules
“
prescriptive
grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
Synonyms:
normative
Antonyms:
descriptive
describing the structure of a language
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