Perscriptive vs Descriptive - What's the difference?
perscriptive | descriptive |
Of or relating to description.
(grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy'' in ''the heavy dictionary ).
(linguistics) Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
(science, philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
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As an adjective descriptive is
of or relating to description.As a noun descriptive is
(grammar) an adjective (or other descriptive word).perscriptive
Not English
Perscriptive has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'perscriptive':
procrastinate, prescriptive, procreative, progressive, preservative, peregrinate, programmable, perjorative, proscriptive, preservable, percarbonate, pyrocarbonate, procarbazine, procrastine, pregraduate, precreative, proscribable, pressurizable, prescriptible, parascorodite, preiswerkite, pyrochroite, procuratorate, preassurance, paragrandine, paracorollae, perserverance, prescribable, prescriptabledescriptive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}