Words and phrases that have a meaning related to proscriptive: (115 results)
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Also try:prescriptive, restrictive, illiberal, legalistic, dogmatic, inflexible, censorious, draconian, permissive, rigid, reductive, onerous, reductionistic, pettifogging, sensible, unacademic, pernickety, nonrestrictive, puritanical, simplistic, anachronistic, dirigiste, politically correct, particularist, deontological, prudish, constrictive, prolix, egalitarian, moralistic, vague, incomprehensive, waffly, intrusive, pedantic, lenient, overburdensome, formalistic, centralist, absolutist, archaic, straightforward, structured, unobjectionable, strict, regimented, explicit, universalized, prudential, tricksy, paternalistic, literalist, arbitrary, censorial, assimilationist, counteractive, draconic, unexceptionable, inefficacious, wordy, overcritical, secularised, obtuse, unworkable, deferential, judgmental, manipulable, unconstrained, laissez faire, regulative, doctrinaire, partitionist, originalist, textualist, iniquitous, puritan, piecemeal, atomistic, redistributionist, enforceable, hortatory, equalitarian, conformist, sophistic, reactionary, burdensome, indulgent, flexible, procrustean, ungreen, obscurantist, maximalist, unspecific, antinomian, uncompassionate, unidimensional, misogynous, embracive, nitpicky, parti pris, unimaginative, digressive, prohibitory, exclusionary, unenforceable, antidiscrimination, declaratory, discriminatory, inclusionary, stricter, undemocratic, antidemocratic, nondiscrimination, prohibitive, stringent
— Nouns for proscriptive: norms, laws, legislation, rules, measures, policy, norm, spirit, system, clauses, model, more...
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