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Reductive

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Adjective

1. reductive

characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment

Example Sentences:
'their views of life were reductive and depreciatory'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Reductive

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adjective
1. 
of or characterized by reduction or reductionism
2. 
reducing or tending to reduce

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Reductive

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adj.
1. Of or relating to reduction.
2. Relating to or exhibiting reductionism: "a series of demeaning, reductive stereotypes" (Richard Bernstein).
3. Relating to or exhibiting reductivism.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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