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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky