prescriptive
pronunciation
How to pronounce prescriptive in British English:
UK [prɪˈskrɪptɪv]
How to pronounce prescriptive in American English:
US [prɪˈskrɪptɪv]
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- Adjective:
- giving directives or rules
- based on or prescribing a norm or standard
Word Origin
- prescriptive (adj.)
- 1748, from Late Latin praescriptivus, from praescript-, past participle stem of praescribere (see prescription). Or formed in English from archaic prescript "a direction" (1530s), from Latin praescriptum.
Example
- 1. Grammar is descriptive , not prescriptive .
- 2. However , uk guidelines spared almost all investment firms from the most prescriptive curbs .
- 3. Some lenders also fret that if underwriting becomes too prescriptive , borrowers are relieved of taking responsibility for their own actions .
- 4. Most of these are prescriptive and are delivered as plain documents .
- 5. The legal and political systems in continental europe are most prescriptive and leave little room for cultural exceptions , at least intheory .