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. Robert Blum:

   There's a notion that today there's a lot more flexibility, there isn't. Gender norms are very prescriptive. Gender norms are very restrictive. And everyone reinforces those gender norms.

2. William McNabb:

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

3. 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.

4. William McNabb:

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

5. General Brian H. Fletcher:

   I think it is not at all unprecedented for the secretary to exercise the same authorities that I was discussing with Justice Thomas here, the authorities to set conditions of participation for hospitals and other providers in Medicare and Medicaid to impose very detailed, very prescriptive requirements that would have very high compliance costs.