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Synonyms & Antonyms of prescriptive
- even in this age of e-mail the prescriptive response to a wedding gift is a handwritten thank-you note
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Near Antonyms for prescriptive
- futuristic,
- high-tech
- (also hi-tech),
- hot,
- latest,
- mod,
- modernistic,
- newfangled,
- new-fashioned,
- red-hot,
- space-age,
- state-of-the-art,
- supermodern,
- ultramodern
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When it comes to words, we're the descriptive sort.
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“Prescriptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prescriptive. Accessed 30 Sep. 2022.
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The first known use of prescriptive was in 1663
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