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prescriptive

[ pri-skrip-tiv ]

adjective

  1. that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions:

    a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.

  2. depending on or arising from effective legal prescription, as a right or title established by a long unchallenged tenure.


prescriptive

/ ɪˈɪɪ /

adjective

  1. making or giving directions, rules, or injunctions
  2. sanctioned by long-standing usage or custom
  3. derived from or based upon legal prescription

    a prescriptive title

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈپԱ, noun
  • ˈپ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ··پ· adverb
  • ··پ·Ա noun
  • ԴDz···پ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of prescriptive1

First recorded in 1740–50; prescript + -ive, modeled on descriptive, destructive, etc.
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While sophisticated fintech solutions can streamline processes, they often approach social support with rigid, prescriptive frameworks that fundamentally misunderstand the complexity of human need.

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Environmental films that are pedantic, prescriptive, or hold audiences by the collar to make them feel bad do more disservice than good, he says.

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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”.

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You describe how you finally lost weight yet seem wary of being prescriptive.

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Those depictions weren’t always positive, and locals still face discrimination and prescriptive gender roles.

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