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prescriptively

prescriptively adverb: in a prescriptive manner.

Adverb

prescriptively (comparative more prescriptively, superlative most prescriptively)

  1. In a prescriptive manner.

Forms of prescriptively

comparativemore prescriptively
superlativemost prescriptively

Origin of prescriptively

From prescriptive + -ly.

Questions about prescriptively

What does prescriptively mean?
Prescriptively means in a prescriptive manner.
What part of speech is prescriptively?
Prescriptively is an adverb.

Words near prescriptively in the dictionary

  1. prescriptionistic
  2. prescriptionists
  3. prescriptionless
  4. prescriptions
  5. prescriptive
  6. prescriptively
  7. prescriptiveness
  8. prescriptivism
  9. prescriptivisms
  10. prescriptivist
  11. prescriptivistic

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