REDUCTIVE Definition & Meaning

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reductive

[ ri-duhk-tiv ]

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adjective

of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge:
an urgent need for reductive measures.
of or relating to change from one form to another:
reductive chemical processes.
employing an analysis of a complex subject into a simplified, less detailed form; of, pertaining to, or employing reductionism; reductionistic.

noun

something causing or inducing a reductive process.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of reductive¹

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

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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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Their worldview is reductive, confined to rigid binaries of good and evil, where complexity is obliterated in favor of simplicity.”

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“And I hate to be so reductive, but every time it comes back to ‘owning the Libs’”

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