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reductive
[ ri-duhk-tiv ]
adjective
- of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge:
an urgent need for reductive measures.
- of or relating to change from one form to another:
reductive chemical processes.
- employing an analysis of a complex subject into a simplified, less detailed form; of, pertaining to, or employing reductionism; reductionistic.
noun
- something causing or inducing a reductive process.
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Other Words From
- re·ductive·ly adverb
- re·ductive·ness noun
- anti·re·ductive adjective
- nonre·ductive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of reductive1
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Example Sentences
Because it's too cautious to dramatize real problems and too reductive to tackle them realistically.
But it would be reductive to make that parallel a blanket one.
He had read a positive review of his own work that nonetheless struck him as reductive and inaccurate.
It is all too easy to be heavy-handed and reductive, something of which Freud himself was guilty on many occasions.
Eric Foner complains that Spielberg's Lincoln is unacceptably reductive.
Now that the law compels a list of dangerous drugs on the label, the cures proceed admittedly by a reductive principle.
At a boiling heat, in presence of dilute acids, it is split up, yielding a reductive sugar.
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Related Words
- diminishing
- diminutive
- minimal
- subtractive
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