prescribed

Other forms of prescribed

comparative

prescribedder·

superlative

prescribeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prescribed

What does prescribed mean?

prescribed means "set down as a rule or guide". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prescribed?

prescribed has 2 syllables: pre-scribed. The stress falls on "scribed". In IPA it is /pɹiˈskɹaɪbd/.

What is another word for prescribed?

Close synonyms include appointed, decreed, ordained, official, positive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prescribed a common word?

prescribed is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with prescribed?

7 words rhyme with prescribed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.