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reductive
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Definitions ofreductive
1adjective
- Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.
- Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.
- That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form.
- That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else.
- (now frequently derogatory) That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist.
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