synonyms?

Is there any relation in your mind between the first pair of words and the following words?

prescriptive & descriptive


implicit
forthright
relative
absolute
deceptive
explicit

Are you asking for something like:

prescriptive -- absolute, explicit

descriptive -- relative

???

Descriptive: describes something

If we are talking about the English Language, 'descriptive' describes the language in use, colloquial english.

Prescriptive: describes how something should be

So, if we are talking about the English Language, 'prescriptive' is how someone should speak correctly.

<Are you asking for something like:

prescriptive -- absolute, explicit

descriptive -- relative >

Yes.

<If we are talking about the English Language, 'descriptive' describes the language in use, colloquial english. >

Desriptivism describes much more that colloquial language?

<If we are talking about the English Language, 'descriptive' describes the language in use, colloquial english. >

Desriptivism describes much more than colloquial language?

Corrected typo.

The words prescriptive and descriptive bear the same relationship to each other as the words explicit and implicit, forthright and deceptive, and relative and absolute, in that they are all antonyms. That's all I see in that list of words.

<The words prescriptive and descriptive bear the same relationship to each other as the words explicit and implicit, forthright and deceptive, and relative and absolute, in that they are all antonyms. That's all I see in that list of words. >

Hmm.

C'mon, Dolly!

prescriptive
deceptive
absolute
explicit

descriptive
implicit
relative
forthright

OK?