Synonyms for prescribe
prɪˈskraɪbpre·scribe

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. prescribe

   Synonyms:
   enjoin, order, impose, recommend, indicate, decree, dictate

   Antonyms:
   inhibition, prohibit, discountenance, discommend

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. order, prescribe, dictateverb

   issue commands or orders for

   Synonyms:
   put, govern, ordain, regularise, rate, dictate, arrange, set up, say, grade, ordinate, range, rank, consecrate, enjoin, regulate, tell, order, place, regularize

Matched Categories

1. • Impose

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. prescribeverb

   Synonyms:
   direct, order, appoint, ordain, dictate, enjoin, decree

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "prescribe":

   prescribing, prescribed, dictate, stipulate, impose

How to pronounce prescribe?

How to say prescribe in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use prescribe in a sentence?

1. Eric Peacock:

   I really believe within about three to four years, when a person is diagnosed with a condition, your physician will prescribe a site like this.

2. William Sheel:

   If we prescribe an exercise or pulmonary rehab program at a given intensity— say, if we tell someone to exercise three times a week— should that be the same for men and women?

3. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio:

   Their answer to every problem in America is a government program and a tax increase. That's all they prescribe time and time again. And this is stuff from the '80s, the mid-'80s.

4. Fed Governor Lael Brainard:

   Notwithstanding the fact that the law does not prescribe broad structural changes, some observers may judge whether reform has gone far enough based on the extent of changes in the scope or scale of the U.S. systemic banking institutions relative to the crisis.

5. Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org:

   The headline reads, "Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, "Stop me before I prescribe again."