descriptivist
adj/dɪˈskɹɪptɪvɪst/UK
Etymology
From descriptive + -ist.
- derived from descriptivus
Definitions
Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes…
Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.
The neighborhood
- synonymdescriptionist
- antonymprescriptionist
- antonymprescriptionistic
- antonymprescriptivist
- antonymprescriptivistic
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for descriptivist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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