Definition of prescriptive in English:

prescriptive

adjective prɪˈskrɪptɪvprəˈskrɪptɪv

1Relating to the imposition or enforcement of a rule or method.
规定的；指定的；规范的
these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive
这些指南目的并不在于强制。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Dairy Industry Act is rigid and prescriptive, and it is time indeed for a revamp.
- The more parents are led to believe that they need this kind of prescriptive advice about how to relate to their children, the more stilted and insecure they are going to become in everyday interactions with their kids.
- A cursory review of the language in these regulations from state to state reveals noticeable differences in the wording, from very prescriptive language to very broad guidelines.
- It's difficult to be prescriptive, and it's ultimately for the Ukrainians, we hope, to resolve this, and above all, peacefully.
- I'm generally supportive of Higgs, but I don't like the prescriptive nature of it.
- In practice, the so-called multicultural agenda, when it is adopted by the state, turns into a very, very prescriptive and limiting set of choices with all sorts of connotations which I might not like.
- We now understand better what it is we need, and this way I think we can be more prescriptive and deliver better value for money.
- This bill is also prescriptive about whom the authority is required to consult.
- It is very prescriptive and outlined how much time to spend on certain areas as well as which words to teach each week.
- Ethical obligations are not about prescriptive rules and regulation nor complying with the law.
- ‘In the past, there were prescriptive rules and lots of checking up,’ Murray said.
- And thus what seems an utterly prescriptive system of breathing, movement, and mind control becomes the vehicle for personal interpretation after all.
- But in many cases so-called ‘simplification’ often requires more extensive clarification that can lead to more detailed and prescriptive regulation.
- The original schedule 2 in the bill - which has now been superseded - was very much more prescriptive and clear about what needed to be enforced and what was acceptable and unacceptable.
- One private sector insider said: ‘Their demands were very very prescriptive.’
- These authors warn against a prescriptive approach, or client stereotyping.
- There was a fear that scopes of practice would be too narrow and prescriptive, but that has never been the intention of scopes of practice.
- I would be very concerned about whether or not something really is mentoring if you have prescriptive outcomes.
- A four-block special district can have very prescriptive rules that would be inappropriate for an entire city.
Synonyms
dictatorial, authoritarian, tyrannical, despotic
arbitrary, oppressive, repressive, coercive
insistent, dogmatic, pontifical
binding, enforceable
limiting, narrow, rigid
informal bossy
1. 1.1Linguistics Attempting to impose rules of correct usage on the users of a language.
  〔语言学〕规定（用法）的；规范的
  a prescriptive grammar book
  规定性语法书。常与DESCRIPTIVE 相对。
  Often contrasted with descriptive
  Example sentencesExamples
  The lesson here is that you actually need to have a pretty good control of descriptive grammar before you can intelligently engage in prescriptive grammar.
  He or she probably has the idea that to the extent that prescriptive rules are not followed, the language is somehow deteriorating.
  Chomsky's goal was not to write a prescriptive grammar book.
  These kinds of prescriptive rules are part of a very outdated conception of grammar which, surprisingly, even in expert circles, is very much alive and well.
  It's an uphill battle to get them comfortable with the notion that ‘rightness’ is situational and that it is possible to be both descriptive and prescriptive.
2(of a right, title, or institution) having become legally established or accepted by long usage or the passage of time.
（权利、头衔或制度因长期使用或随时间推移变得）合法的，约定俗成的
a prescriptive right of way
约定俗成的通行权。
Example sentencesExamples
- In both cases, the courts completely dismissed the plaintiffs' prescriptive rights arguments.
- According to Ohio case law, the minimum period required to acquire a prescriptive easement is 21 years.
- Yet, no one would suggest that by using it the public might acquire prescriptive rights and that the land might become a town green.
- The wall the vessel is moored to has nothing to do with this matter, and furthermore no prescriptive rights apply.
- Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power.
1. 2.1archaic Arising from long-standing custom or usage.
  〈古〉根据因袭习惯的，习惯性的
  for her own mother she felt no more than a prescriptive affection

Derivatives

prescriptively

adverb

Radio New Zealand has operated quite successfully in the past without this prescriptively politically correct charter.
Example sentencesExamples
- Again, the goal is to examine ideas and explore concepts descriptively rather than prescriptively.
- Despite his prescriptively nationalistic attitude, and his commitment to the notion that ‘the bush is the heart of Australia’, Stephens himself was cosmopolitan in his literary tastes.
- By having the respondents place activities on a scale of acceptability or tolerance, we sidestep the problem of prescriptively defining the meanings of key concepts.
- While the art and science of diagnosis is dependent upon comparisons among groups, clinicians should apply their choice of treatments prescriptively.
- And he was generous to many, and offered wise counsel, not prescriptively, but by gentle questioning of your own beliefs.

prescriptiveness

noun

Such prescriptiveness probably reached its peak in regulations for the launch of digital TV.
Example sentencesExamples
- To give her her due, the headmistress wasn't too keen on league tables herself and has spoken out against government prescriptiveness.
- I think the thing that most worried me about this text was its prescriptiveness.

prescriptivism

noun prɪˈskrɪptɪvɪz(ə)mprəˈskrɪptəˌvɪzəm

Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting.
Example sentencesExamples
- To some extent, the presence of phoneticians on the committee ensured that the strict prescriptivism expressed by Reith in 1924 was to some extent mitigated.
- Something that tends to go along with prescriptivism is a pessimism about the future of a favourite language or languages.
- Doing so in the context of oral native language assessment, and characterizing the results as an index of native language ability, enormously privileges the educated classes and recalls the classic critique of prescriptivism.

prescriptivist

adjective & noun

Lowth's reputation as a prescriptivist is not entirely deserved.
Example sentencesExamples
- All four of these claims have indeed been made by prescriptivists.
- If the use of ‘they’ in the singular is wrong, it's not wrong in that no one will understand the sentence, it's wrong according to prescriptivist grammar.
- Of course, the untrained judgment of whether a response can be corrected may reflect a host of nonlinguistic factors, prescriptivist values and stylistic preferences among them.
- And more broadly, one problem with many (though not all) prescriptivists' view of the language is that they assume that there's always just one proper rule.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from late Latin praescriptivus 'relating to a legal exception', from praescript- 'directed in writing', from the verb praescribere (see prescribe).

Definition of prescriptive in US English:

prescriptive

adjectiveprəˈskriptivprəˈskrɪptɪv

1Relating to the imposition or enforcement of a rule or method.
规定的；指定的；规范的
these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive
这些指南目的并不在于强制。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Dairy Industry Act is rigid and prescriptive, and it is time indeed for a revamp.
- The more parents are led to believe that they need this kind of prescriptive advice about how to relate to their children, the more stilted and insecure they are going to become in everyday interactions with their kids.
- This bill is also prescriptive about whom the authority is required to consult.
- Ethical obligations are not about prescriptive rules and regulation nor complying with the law.
- These authors warn against a prescriptive approach, or client stereotyping.
- One private sector insider said: ‘Their demands were very very prescriptive.’
- And thus what seems an utterly prescriptive system of breathing, movement, and mind control becomes the vehicle for personal interpretation after all.
- There was a fear that scopes of practice would be too narrow and prescriptive, but that has never been the intention of scopes of practice.
- It's difficult to be prescriptive, and it's ultimately for the Ukrainians, we hope, to resolve this, and above all, peacefully.
- A four-block special district can have very prescriptive rules that would be inappropriate for an entire city.
- In practice, the so-called multicultural agenda, when it is adopted by the state, turns into a very, very prescriptive and limiting set of choices with all sorts of connotations which I might not like.
- But in many cases so-called ‘simplification’ often requires more extensive clarification that can lead to more detailed and prescriptive regulation.
- We now understand better what it is we need, and this way I think we can be more prescriptive and deliver better value for money.
- A cursory review of the language in these regulations from state to state reveals noticeable differences in the wording, from very prescriptive language to very broad guidelines.
- ‘In the past, there were prescriptive rules and lots of checking up,’ Murray said.
- I'm generally supportive of Higgs, but I don't like the prescriptive nature of it.
- The original schedule 2 in the bill - which has now been superseded - was very much more prescriptive and clear about what needed to be enforced and what was acceptable and unacceptable.
- It is very prescriptive and outlined how much time to spend on certain areas as well as which words to teach each week.
- I would be very concerned about whether or not something really is mentoring if you have prescriptive outcomes.
Synonyms
dictatorial, authoritarian, tyrannical, despotic
1. 1.1Linguistics Attempting to impose rules of correct usage on the users of a language.
  〔语言学〕规定（用法）的；规范的
  a prescriptive grammar book
  规定性语法书。常与DESCRIPTIVE 相对。
  Often contrasted with descriptive
  Example sentencesExamples
  The lesson here is that you actually need to have a pretty good control of descriptive grammar before you can intelligently engage in prescriptive grammar.
  Chomsky's goal was not to write a prescriptive grammar book.
  These kinds of prescriptive rules are part of a very outdated conception of grammar which, surprisingly, even in expert circles, is very much alive and well.
  It's an uphill battle to get them comfortable with the notion that ‘rightness’ is situational and that it is possible to be both descriptive and prescriptive.
  He or she probably has the idea that to the extent that prescriptive rules are not followed, the language is somehow deteriorating.
2(of a right, title, or institution) having become legally established or accepted by long usage or the passage of time.
（权利、头衔或制度因长期使用或随时间推移变得）合法的，约定俗成的
a prescriptive right of way
约定俗成的通行权。
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet, no one would suggest that by using it the public might acquire prescriptive rights and that the land might become a town green.
- In both cases, the courts completely dismissed the plaintiffs' prescriptive rights arguments.
- The wall the vessel is moored to has nothing to do with this matter, and furthermore no prescriptive rights apply.
- According to Ohio case law, the minimum period required to acquire a prescriptive easement is 21 years.
- Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power.
1. 2.1archaic Established by long-standing custom or usage.
  〈古〉根据因袭习惯的，习惯性的
  his regular score at the bar and his prescriptive corner at the winter's fireside
  他在酒吧的老账和冬天习惯呆的炉火边的角落。

Origin

Mid 18th century: from late Latin praescriptivus ‘relating to a legal exception’, from praescript- ‘directed in writing’, from the verb praescribere (see prescribe).

词汇	prescriptive
释义	Definition of prescriptive in English: prescriptive adjective prɪˈskrɪptɪvprəˈskrɪptɪv 1Relating to the imposition or enforcement of a rule or method. 规定的；指定的；规范的 these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive 这些指南目的并不在于强制。 Example sentencesExamples The Dairy Industry Act is rigid and prescriptive, and it is time indeed for a revamp. The more parents are led to believe that they need this kind of prescriptive advice about how to relate to their children, the more stilted and insecure they are going to become in everyday interactions with their kids. A cursory review of the language in these regulations from state to state reveals noticeable differences in the wording, from very prescriptive language to very broad guidelines. It's difficult to be prescriptive, and it's ultimately for the Ukrainians, we hope, to resolve this, and above all, peacefully. I'm generally supportive of Higgs, but I don't like the prescriptive nature of it. In practice, the so-called multicultural agenda, when it is adopted by the state, turns into a very, very prescriptive and limiting set of choices with all sorts of connotations which I might not like. We now understand better what it is we need, and this way I think we can be more prescriptive and deliver better value for money. This bill is also prescriptive about whom the authority is required to consult. It is very prescriptive and outlined how much time to spend on certain areas as well as which words to teach each week. Ethical obligations are not about prescriptive rules and regulation nor complying with the law. ‘In the past, there were prescriptive rules and lots of checking up,’ Murray said. And thus what seems an utterly prescriptive system of breathing, movement, and mind control becomes the vehicle for personal interpretation after all. But in many cases so-called ‘simplification’ often requires more extensive clarification that can lead to more detailed and prescriptive regulation. The original schedule 2 in the bill - which has now been superseded - was very much more prescriptive and clear about what needed to be enforced and what was acceptable and unacceptable. One private sector insider said: ‘Their demands were very very prescriptive.’ These authors warn against a prescriptive approach, or client stereotyping. There was a fear that scopes of practice would be too narrow and prescriptive, but that has never been the intention of scopes of practice. I would be very concerned about whether or not something really is mentoring if you have prescriptive outcomes. A four-block special district can have very prescriptive rules that would be inappropriate for an entire city. Synonyms dictatorial, authoritarian, tyrannical, despotic arbitrary, oppressive, repressive, coercive insistent, dogmatic, pontifical binding, enforceable limiting, narrow, rigid informal bossy 1.1Linguistics Attempting to impose rules of correct usage on the users of a language. 〔语言学〕规定（用法）的；规范的 a prescriptive grammar book 规定性语法书。常与DESCRIPTIVE 相对。 Often contrasted with descriptive Example sentencesExamples The lesson here is that you actually need to have a pretty good control of descriptive grammar before you can intelligently engage in prescriptive grammar. He or she probably has the idea that to the extent that prescriptive rules are not followed, the language is somehow deteriorating. Chomsky's goal was not to write a prescriptive grammar book. These kinds of prescriptive rules are part of a very outdated conception of grammar which, surprisingly, even in expert circles, is very much alive and well. It's an uphill battle to get them comfortable with the notion that ‘rightness’ is situational and that it is possible to be both descriptive and prescriptive. 2(of a right, title, or institution) having become legally established or accepted by long usage or the passage of time. （权利、头衔或制度因长期使用或随时间推移变得）合法的，约定俗成的 a prescriptive right of way 约定俗成的通行权。 Example sentencesExamples In both cases, the courts completely dismissed the plaintiffs' prescriptive rights arguments. According to Ohio case law, the minimum period required to acquire a prescriptive easement is 21 years. Yet, no one would suggest that by using it the public might acquire prescriptive rights and that the land might become a town green. The wall the vessel is moored to has nothing to do with this matter, and furthermore no prescriptive rights apply. Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power. 2.1archaic Arising from long-standing custom or usage. 〈古〉根据因袭习惯的，习惯性的 for her own mother she felt no more than a prescriptive affection Derivatives prescriptively adverb Radio New Zealand has operated quite successfully in the past without this prescriptively politically correct charter. Example sentencesExamples Again, the goal is to examine ideas and explore concepts descriptively rather than prescriptively. Despite his prescriptively nationalistic attitude, and his commitment to the notion that ‘the bush is the heart of Australia’, Stephens himself was cosmopolitan in his literary tastes. By having the respondents place activities on a scale of acceptability or tolerance, we sidestep the problem of prescriptively defining the meanings of key concepts. While the art and science of diagnosis is dependent upon comparisons among groups, clinicians should apply their choice of treatments prescriptively. And he was generous to many, and offered wise counsel, not prescriptively, but by gentle questioning of your own beliefs. prescriptiveness noun Such prescriptiveness probably reached its peak in regulations for the launch of digital TV. Example sentencesExamples To give her her due, the headmistress wasn't too keen on league tables herself and has spoken out against government prescriptiveness. I think the thing that most worried me about this text was its prescriptiveness. prescriptivism noun prɪˈskrɪptɪvɪz(ə)mprəˈskrɪptəˌvɪzəm Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting. Example sentencesExamples To some extent, the presence of phoneticians on the committee ensured that the strict prescriptivism expressed by Reith in 1924 was to some extent mitigated. Something that tends to go along with prescriptivism is a pessimism about the future of a favourite language or languages. Doing so in the context of oral native language assessment, and characterizing the results as an index of native language ability, enormously privileges the educated classes and recalls the classic critique of prescriptivism. prescriptivist adjective & noun Lowth's reputation as a prescriptivist is not entirely deserved. Example sentencesExamples All four of these claims have indeed been made by prescriptivists. If the use of ‘they’ in the singular is wrong, it's not wrong in that no one will understand the sentence, it's wrong according to prescriptivist grammar. Of course, the untrained judgment of whether a response can be corrected may reflect a host of nonlinguistic factors, prescriptivist values and stylistic preferences among them. And more broadly, one problem with many (though not all) prescriptivists' view of the language is that they assume that there's always just one proper rule. Origin Mid 18th century: from late Latin praescriptivus 'relating to a legal exception', from praescript- 'directed in writing', from the verb praescribere (see prescribe). Definition of prescriptive in US English: prescriptive adjectiveprəˈskriptivprəˈskrɪptɪv 1Relating to the imposition or enforcement of a rule or method. 规定的；指定的；规范的 these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive 这些指南目的并不在于强制。 Example sentencesExamples The Dairy Industry Act is rigid and prescriptive, and it is time indeed for a revamp. The more parents are led to believe that they need this kind of prescriptive advice about how to relate to their children, the more stilted and insecure they are going to become in everyday interactions with their kids. This bill is also prescriptive about whom the authority is required to consult. Ethical obligations are not about prescriptive rules and regulation nor complying with the law. These authors warn against a prescriptive approach, or client stereotyping. One private sector insider said: ‘Their demands were very very prescriptive.’ And thus what seems an utterly prescriptive system of breathing, movement, and mind control becomes the vehicle for personal interpretation after all. There was a fear that scopes of practice would be too narrow and prescriptive, but that has never been the intention of scopes of practice. It's difficult to be prescriptive, and it's ultimately for the Ukrainians, we hope, to resolve this, and above all, peacefully. A four-block special district can have very prescriptive rules that would be inappropriate for an entire city. In practice, the so-called multicultural agenda, when it is adopted by the state, turns into a very, very prescriptive and limiting set of choices with all sorts of connotations which I might not like. But in many cases so-called ‘simplification’ often requires more extensive clarification that can lead to more detailed and prescriptive regulation. We now understand better what it is we need, and this way I think we can be more prescriptive and deliver better value for money. A cursory review of the language in these regulations from state to state reveals noticeable differences in the wording, from very prescriptive language to very broad guidelines. ‘In the past, there were prescriptive rules and lots of checking up,’ Murray said. I'm generally supportive of Higgs, but I don't like the prescriptive nature of it. The original schedule 2 in the bill - which has now been superseded - was very much more prescriptive and clear about what needed to be enforced and what was acceptable and unacceptable. It is very prescriptive and outlined how much time to spend on certain areas as well as which words to teach each week. I would be very concerned about whether or not something really is mentoring if you have prescriptive outcomes. Synonyms dictatorial, authoritarian, tyrannical, despotic 1.1Linguistics Attempting to impose rules of correct usage on the users of a language. 〔语言学〕规定（用法）的；规范的 a prescriptive grammar book 规定性语法书。常与DESCRIPTIVE 相对。 Often contrasted with descriptive Example sentencesExamples The lesson here is that you actually need to have a pretty good control of descriptive grammar before you can intelligently engage in prescriptive grammar. Chomsky's goal was not to write a prescriptive grammar book. These kinds of prescriptive rules are part of a very outdated conception of grammar which, surprisingly, even in expert circles, is very much alive and well. It's an uphill battle to get them comfortable with the notion that ‘rightness’ is situational and that it is possible to be both descriptive and prescriptive. He or she probably has the idea that to the extent that prescriptive rules are not followed, the language is somehow deteriorating. 2(of a right, title, or institution) having become legally established or accepted by long usage or the passage of time. （权利、头衔或制度因长期使用或随时间推移变得）合法的，约定俗成的 a prescriptive right of way 约定俗成的通行权。 Example sentencesExamples Yet, no one would suggest that by using it the public might acquire prescriptive rights and that the land might become a town green. In both cases, the courts completely dismissed the plaintiffs' prescriptive rights arguments. The wall the vessel is moored to has nothing to do with this matter, and furthermore no prescriptive rights apply. According to Ohio case law, the minimum period required to acquire a prescriptive easement is 21 years. Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power. 2.1archaic Established by long-standing custom or usage. 〈古〉根据因袭习惯的，习惯性的 his regular score at the bar and his prescriptive corner at the winter's fireside 他在酒吧的老账和冬天习惯呆的炉火边的角落。 Origin Mid 18th century: from late Latin praescriptivus ‘relating to a legal exception’, from praescript- ‘directed in writing’, from the verb praescribere (see prescribe).
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