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Prescriptive vs Suggestive - What's the difference?

prescriptive | suggestive |

As adjectives the difference between prescriptive and suggestive

is that prescriptive is of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard while suggestive is tending to suggest or imply.

prescriptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
  • *
    • For one thing, spoken language tends to be less subjected to prescriptive
    pressures than written language, and hence is a less artificial medium of com-
    munication (written language is often a kind of 'censored' version of spoken
    language). [...]

    Synonyms

    * normative

    Antonyms

    * descriptive (especially of grammar and usage) * proscriptive

    Derived terms

    * prescriptiveness

    Related terms

    * prescribe * prescription * prescriptive ethics * prescriptivism * prescriptivist * prescriptivity

    suggestive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to suggest or imply.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • Suggesting romance, sex, etc.