'Reductive' definitions:
Definition of 'reductive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere
Definition of 'Reductive'
From: GCIDE
- Reductive \Re*duc"tive\ (-t?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]ductif.] Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n. A reductive agent. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reductive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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