reductive

Speech parts

1. reductive - Noun

2. reductive - Adjective

3. reductive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.

A reductive agent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lower reducer decrease crude backward coarse diminish diminishing lessen deductive docking diminutive simplistic dwindling lessening
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Antonyms

high complete increase advanced improve BIG
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Phrases with the word

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Examples

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that. Charles Jencks

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. Robert Redford

I gather you were all too busy killing each other.” "That's a fairly reductive summary of our history, but I don't suppose it's too far from the truth. Alastair Reynolds

I object to several popular ideas. I don't think anyone's work is reductive. The most the term can mean is that new work doesn't have what the old work had. Its not so definitive that a certain kind of form is missing; a description and discussion of the kind present is pretty definitive. Donald Judd

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent. Alexander Schmemann

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. Ben Okri

Close letter words and terms

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