Synonyms and Antonyms of rubric
1
a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize
- the rubrics at the beginning of the chapters are intended to be humorous
2
an inherited or established way of thinking, feeling, or doing
- the rubric, popular among jewelers anyway, that a man should spend a month's salary on his fiancée's engagement ring
ethic, form, mode, mores, norm, principles, standards, values
birthright, inheritance, legacy
folklore, lore, superstition
culture, lifestyle
3
one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic
- all of these books with their conspiracy theories fall under the rubric of speculative fiction
bracket, category, class, classification, division, family, genus, grade, group, kind, league, order, rank(s), set, species, tier, type
description, feather, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, sort
branch, section, speciality, specialty, subclass, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, variety
breed, race
generation
heading, label, title
