Prescriptive Synonyms and Antonyms

prĭ-skrĭptĭv
Pertaining to giving directives or rules
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. authoritarian
  2. rigid
  3. prescribed
  4. normative
  5. customary
  6. cut-and-dried
Antonyms:
  1. descriptive

Words Related to Prescriptive

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Prescriptive Sentence Examples

  • Apparently the title was occasionally used, and the use gradually grew into a prescriptive right.

  • A prescriptive market is held on Saturdays; two fairs of like nature have disappeared.

  • Earl Warenne held a weekly market on Saturdays, and fairs on Tuesday in Whitsun-week, the eve and day of St Lawrence, and the eve and day of the Exaltation of the Cross, by prescriptive right.

  • Each of the four points stimulates ideas without being overly prescriptive.

  • The borough is again mentioned in 1487-1488, when John Plecy held six messuages in free burgage of the king as of his borough of Wimborne, but it seems to have been entirely prescriptive, and was never a parliamentary borough.

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