Hyphenation of prescribed

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word prescribed? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

pre-scribed

Definitions of prescribed:

1.	Set down as a rule or guide
2.	Fixed or established especially by order or command At the time appointed (or the appointed time)
3.	Conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline In prescribed order
4.	Formally laid down or imposed Positive laws

Synonyms of prescribed:

adj	nonarbitrary, unarbitrary
adj	appointed, decreed, ordained, settled
adj	official, regular
adj	positive, formal

Last hyphenations of this language

sputterers sponge-bearing spute sputative hereupon spratt spurrial midpoint spurred simba prephragma self-banished coralligena spurluous ministrative spurius Liotrichi Narcobatus spuriae

Hyphenator

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