Associations to the word «Prescriptive»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

PRESCRIPTIVE, adjective. Pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope