reductive
Meaning of reductive
adjective
- Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.
- Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.
- That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form.
- That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else.
- (now frequently derogatory) That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist.
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Hyphenation of reductive
re-duc-tive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- reductive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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