Definitions for reductive

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reductive re·duc·tive

Spelling: [ri-duhk-tiv]

IPA: /rɪˈdʌk tɪv/

Reductive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 329 anagrams from letters in reductive (cdeeirtuv).

Definitions for reductive

adjective

1. of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge:
2. of or relating to change from one form to another:
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.

Origin of reductive

First recorded in 1625-35; reduct(ion) + -ive

Examples for 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.

But even that's too reductive for a series that relishes the gamesmanship, intrigue, and corruption that follows in their wake.

Because it's too cautious to dramatize real problems and too reductive to tackle them realistically.

It is all too easy to be heavy-handed and reductive, something of which Freud himself was guilty on many occasions.

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.