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prescriptive
[ pri-skrip-tiv ]
adjective
- that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions:
a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- depending on or arising from effective legal prescription, as a right or title established by a long unchallenged tenure.
prescriptive
/ ɪˈɪɪ /
adjective
- making or giving directions, rules, or injunctions
- sanctioned by long-standing usage or custom
- derived from or based upon legal prescription
a prescriptive title
Derived Forms
- ˈپԱ, noun
- ˈپ, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- ··پ· adverb
- ··پ·Ա noun
- ԴDz···پ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of prescriptive1
Example Sentences
While sophisticated fintech solutions can streamline processes, they often approach social support with rigid, prescriptive frameworks that fundamentally misunderstand the complexity of human need.
Environmental films that are pedantic, prescriptive, or hold audiences by the collar to make them feel bad do more disservice than good, he says.
In the 2002 letter, the then Prince of Wales said to a senior UK government minister that “more prescriptive laws” were creating “increasing difficulty in many walks of life”.
You describe how you finally lost weight yet seem wary of being prescriptive.
Those depictions weren’t always positive, and locals still face discrimination and prescriptive gender roles.
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