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reductive

Pronunciation: /rɪˈdʌktɪv/

Definition of reductive

adjective

  • 1tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude:such a conclusion by itself would be reductive
  • (with reference to art) minimal:he combines his reductive abstract shapes with a rippled surface
  • 2relating to chemical reduction: the reductive elimination of acetyl iodide

Derivatives

reductively

adverb

reductiveness

noun

reductive in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of reductive in the US English dictionary
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