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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to prescriptive:   (143 results)

Antonyms:
descriptive

Often used in the same context:
proscriptive, restrictive, legalistic, dogmatic, standardized, didactic, inflexible, simplistic, rigid, onerous, vaguer, formalistic, intrusive, generalized, moralistic, permissive, pedantic, reductionist, cumbersome, formulaic, reductive, paternalistic, descriptive, subjective, constrictive, psychodynamic, deontological, judgmental, punitive, structured, stringent, interventionist, straightforward, hortatory, doctrinaire, wordy, preachy, prescribed, draconian, individualized, piecemeal, rigorous, literalist, rote learning, holistic, burdensome, nonrestrictive, explicit, dialogical, reactive, specific, illiberal, facilitative, prudential, summative, simplified, dirigiste, ambiguous, wholistic, regimented, practical, incomprehensive, interactional, standardised, flexible, censorious, rote, obtuse, maximalist, plurilateral, nuanced, explanatory, unspecific, digressive, laissez faire, arbitrary, recommendatory, regulated, evaluative, prolix, bureaucratic, counteractive, counterproductive, distortive, sensible, unhelpful, politically correct, reflexive pronoun, pragmatic, duplicable, discursive, mechanistic, inefficacious, originalist, simpler, compliant, circumscribed, hierarchical, learnable, unworkable, particularistic, hermeneutical, directional, empirical, personal, abrasive, adaptive, affective, apocalyptic, arable, coercive, communal, constraining, contractile, decorative, deserving, deviant, dispersive, effective, eschatological, evil, normative, generalizable, explicative, universalistic, axiomatic, exclusionary, probabilistic, substantive, heuristic, juridical, semiotic, applicable, conventional, denotative, inclusionary, teleological, declarative

Appears in the definition of:
permissive

Synonyms:
normative, received, standard

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— Nouns for prescriptive: right, rights, approach, authority, rules, literature, theory, model models, period, grammar, more...

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