prescriptivistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Perhaps once more the somewhat prescriptivistic nature of most grammars of the time accounts for the reluctance to regulate language choice suggested by Heath and Mandabach."
- "For a few verbs, continued wavering between past participles is reflected in Fabra’s prescriptivistic Gràmatica catalana (1969)."
- "The point here is not that Moore did not recognize the essentially prescriptive character of moral language—as it was maintained by Hare—but, more likely, that we are facing two entirely different conceptions and definitions of ethics: one is prescriptivistic and the other one is not."
Etymology
From prescriptive + -istic or prescriptivist + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more prescriptivistic (comparative)
most prescriptivistic (superlative)