Reductive Definition
rĭ-dŭktĭv
adjective
Of or relating to reduction.
American Heritage
Of or characterized by reduction or reductionism.
Webster's New World
Reducing or tending to reduce.
Webster's New World
Relating to or exhibiting reductivism.
American Heritage
(Scotland law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. [from 16th c.]
Wiktionary
Origin of Reductive
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From Middle French réductif, and its source, Late Latin reductivus, from the participle stem of Latin reducere (“to reduce").
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