| 单词 | prescriptive |
| 释义 | prescriptive (once / 15593 pages) adj Prescriptive things have to do with giving rules or directions. Prescriptive advice tells you what to do. When the doctor writes a prescription, he or she is telling you to get a particular drug and take it. Similarly, anything prescriptive involves telling people what to do. People are prescriptive when they're sure of what’s right. "You have several options" is not prescriptive, but "You should do this" is very prescriptive. A bossy person is very prescriptive. WORD FAMILYprescriptive: prescriptively+/prescribe: prescribed, prescribes, prescribing, prescription, prescriptive/prescription: nonprescription, prescriptions USAGE EXAMPLESThis film’s generous, skeptical spirit is in any case more diagnostic than prescriptive. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) Since that’s unlikely, even with a President Trump, industry wants rules to be as prescriptive as possible to provide “regulatory certainty.” Washington Post(Dec 18, 2016) The other brochure was more prescriptive, even threatening, in its tone: “We should all refrain from negative stereotyping,” it read. Slate(Dec 01, 2016) adj pertaining to giving directives or rules prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage Syn|Ant normative descriptive describing the structure of a language |
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