prescriptive

adj.

1. Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage.
2. Making or giving injunctions, directions, laws, or rules.
3. Law. Acquired by or based on uninterrupted possession.
4. Linguistics. Based on or establishing norms or rules indicating how a language should or should not be used rather than describing the ways in which a language is used.

prescriptively pre·scrip'tive·ly adv.
prescriptiveness pre·scrip'tive·ness n.

adj

Definition: dictatorial
Antonyms: descriptive, optional

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prescriptive, seeking to lay down rules and instructions. Prescriptive criticism formulates the norms according to which literary works ought to be written, whereas descriptive criticism tries to account for the ways in which they actually have been written. In discussions of language, prescriptivism is the attitude that tries to impose an unchanging standard of ‘correct’ usage in language, especially in grammar; it is rejected as a misconceived dogma by most modern linguists.

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: (grammar) giving directives or rules
  Synonym: normative
  Antonym: descriptive (meaning #3)

Meaning #2: based on or prescribing a norm or standard
  Synonym: normative

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - foreskrevet, hævdvunden

Nederlands (Dutch)
voorschrijvend

Français (French)
adj. - (gén, Ling) normatif, (Jur) prescriptible, (gén) consacré par l'usage (sout)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - präskriptiv

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - κανονιστικός, ρυθμιστικός

Italiano (Italian)
prescrittivo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - prescritivo

Русский (Russian)
предписывающий, нормативный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - preceptivo, establecido

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - normativ, hävdvunnen

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
规定的, 因时效而获得的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 規定的, 因時效而獲得的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 규정하는, 규범적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 規定する, 規範的な, 時効による, 時効によって得た

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) تقادمي, مكتسب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קובע כללים, מעוגן בחוק, מושרש במנהג, מבוסס על צו‬

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