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reductive

[ ri-duhk-tiv ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge:

    an urgent need for reductive measures.

  2. of or relating to change from one form to another:

    reductive chemical processes.

  3. employing an analysis of a complex subject into a simplified, less detailed form; of, pertaining to, or employing reductionism; reductionistic.


noun

  1. something causing or inducing a reductive process.
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Other Word Forms

  • ·ܳt· adverb
  • ·ܳt·Ա noun
  • t··ܳt adjective
  • ԴDzr·ܳt adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of reductive1

First recorded in 1625–35; reduct(ion) + -ive
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When he gets annoyed at her reductive assumption, she calls him "crazy" and "absolutely f—king crazy," and repeatedly says "f—k you" to him.

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Many senior Labour figures regarded such questions as reductive and trivialising and wanted to be openly thoughtful about the rights of trans people.

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"You have my cell, always happy to talk privately or publicly on either of our shows because these conversations are reductive to hash out on social media."

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That may be reductive, but the point is well taken.

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Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said the five-point grading scale "maintains the current blunt, reductive approach that cannot capture the complexity of school life nor provide more meaningful information to parents".

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