Prescriptivist

Quick meaning: Prescriptivist is a noun meaning Having a tendency to prescribe.

Meaning

Having a tendency to prescribe.

More Meanings

1. (linguistics) Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.

Example Sentences

In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.

The plutocratic tone and styptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of the Prescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.

Word Forms

• prescriptivists

Synonyms for prescriptivist

Depending on context, synonyms include prescriptionist, prescriptionistic, prescriptivistic.

Antonyms for prescriptivist

Common opposites include descriptionist, descriptivist, descriptionistic, descriptivistic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prescriptivism, grammar, neo-purism, peeververein, descriptionist, predicativist.

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