Descriptivist

Adjective

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Definitions

1.AdjectiveSubscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.

2.NounSomeone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.

Synonyms

descriptivistic descriptory descriptionistic descriptionist descriptive descriptional subscriptive metadescriptive subtypic subsumptive descensional subdemographic

Rhymes With

prescriptivist

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