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prescriptive

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of prescriptive

based on customs usually handed down from a previous generation

even in this age of e-mail the prescriptive response to a wedding gift is a handwritten thank-you note

Synonyms of prescriptive

classical, conventional, customary, traditional

Words Related to prescriptive

authentic, established, fixed, historical

common, habitual, orthodox, usual

ancestral, historic, old-time, old-world

aged, age-old, ancient, antediluvian, hoary, old, venerable

ageless, dateless, immemorial, timeless

Near Antonyms of prescriptive

contemporary, current, modern, modernized, new, new-age, present-day, updated, up-to-date

futuristic, high-tech (also hi-tech), hot, latest, mod, modernistic, newfangled, new-fashioned, red-hot, space-age, state-of-the-art, supermodern, ultramodern

nonconformist, nonorthodox, original, progressive, revolutionary, unorthodox, unprecedented, unusual

Antonyms of prescriptive

nontraditional, unconventional, uncustomary, untraditional

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