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Adjective: prescriptive  pri'skrip-tiv
  1. (grammar) pertaining to giving directives or rules
    "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage";
    - normative

Sounds like: proscriptive

Antonym: descriptive

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