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unprescriptive

unprescriptive adjective: not prescriptive.

Adjective

unprescriptive (comparative more unprescriptive, superlative most unprescriptive)

  1. not prescriptive

Forms of unprescriptive

comparativemore unprescriptive
superlativemost unprescriptive

Origin of unprescriptive

From un- + prescriptive.

Questions about unprescriptive

What does unprescriptive mean?
Unprescriptive means not prescriptive.
What part of speech is unprescriptive?
Unprescriptive is an adjective.

Words near unprescriptive in the dictionary

  1. unprescribable
  2. unprescribe
  3. unprescribed
  4. unprescribes
  5. unprescribing
  6. unprescriptive
  7. unpreselected
  8. unpresent
  9. unpresentability
  10. unpresentable
  11. unpresentableness

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