PRESCRIPTIVE Antonyms

• capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use

• capable of being changed

• able to flex; able to bend easily

• making or willing to make concessions

• able to adjust readily to different conditions

• bending and snapping back readily without breaking

• with minimally restricted freedom in commerce

• tolerant or lenient

• not strict

• characterized by tolerance and mercy

• tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition

• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

• a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

• showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

• having political or social views favoring reform and progress

• given or giving freely

• not literal

• not preventive

• granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline

• without strain or anxiety

• showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others

• tolerant and forgiving under provocation

• showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

• able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress

• showing the capacity for endurance

• serving to describe or inform or characterized by description

• of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage

• Proscribing or prohibiting, for example as according to a norm or standard