Synonyms for prescriptive
prɪˈskrɪp tɪvpre·scrip·tive

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1. prescriptiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   normative

   Antonyms:
   descriptive, proscriptive

2. prescriptiveadjective

   Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.

   Synonyms:
   normative

   Antonyms:
   descriptive, proscriptive

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1. prescriptive, normativeadjective

   pertaining to giving directives or rules

   "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"

   Synonyms:
   normative

   Antonyms:
   descriptive

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1. List of paraphrases for "prescriptive":

   normative, standards-related, standard-setting, regulatory, mandatory

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1. Joseph de Maistre:

   In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

2. William McNabb:

   We’ve become more targeted in whom we mailed letters to and more prescriptive in our language.

3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

   The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

4. The School Nutrition Association:

   Overly prescriptive regulations have resulted in unintended consequences, including reduced student lunch participation, higher costs and food waste. Federal nutrition standards should be modified to help school menu planners manage these challenges and prepare nutritious meals that appeal to diverse student tastes.

5. Joshua Walden:

   A federal government approach that is overly prescriptive regarding the deployment of new hardware and software will deter the private sector’s ability to invent and compete in the marketplace, worse, it will drive us to relocate our business planning and R&D overseas, where we are being welcomed by foreign countries eager for investment in this new technology area.