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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective reductive has 1 sense

• reductive(s = adj.all) Array - characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory"
Derived form verb reduce₁

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THESAURUS

reductive

ablative, arrested, backward, coarse, conceptually crude, contractive, crude, declining, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, deductive, deliquescent, diminishing, diminuendo, dwindling, embryonic, erosive, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, intellectually childish, languishing, lessening, on the wane, oversimple, reductionistic, rough, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, simplistic, stunted, subsiding, subtractive, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unlabored, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, untreated, unworked, unwrought, waning

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