descriptivist

Meanings

Adjective

• Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• descriptionist
• descriptionistic
• descriptivistic

Opposite words

• prescriptionist
• prescriptionistic
• prescriptivist
• prescriptivistic

Origin

• descriptive + -ist