prescriptive

Word family

pre·scrip·tive /prɪˈskrɪptɪv/ adjectiveadj

1 MUSTsaying how something should or must be done, or what should be done 规定的，指定的

prescriptive teaching methods

规定的教学方法

2 SLLstating how a language should be used, rather than describing how it is used 〔语言〕规定性的 OPP descriptive

prescriptive grammar

规定语法

3. prescriptive right British EnglishBrE law a right that has existed for so long that it is as effective as a law 依时效而取得的权利

—prescriptively adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

prescriptive• For while there are detailed teacher's notes provided, the Student's Books themselves are not at all prescriptive.• Proponents of what are inevitably radical solutions must be unfashionably prescriptive.• The style and format of teachers' guides vary from the most detached to the most prescriptive.• For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one.• But comprehensive data collection ran ahead of a capacity for meaningful analysis, and prescriptive content was disappointing.• I do not intend to turn this into a prescriptive handbook.• Social capacities are normative or prescriptive, in that they include responsibilities for whose discharge the actor can be praised or criticized.• Essentially feminism is a perspective rather than a particular set of prescriptive values.

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus

BNC: 16198 COCA: 19297

prescriptive