Associations to the word «Reductive»
Noun
- Chromatography
- Physical
- Chandra
- Oxygen
- Sulfate
- Yield
- Pesticide
- Sulfur
- Cycle
- Phosphate
- Putnam
- Oxide
- Ammonia
- Electrode
- Derivative
- Naturalist
- Complex
- Residue
- Mechanism
- Induction
- Datum
- Acid
- Bond
- Variety
- Cleaning
- Detection
- Constituent
- Atom
- Creativity
- Potential
- Group
- Radical
- Geometry
- Lipid
- Precursor
- Deposition
- Metal
- Salt
- Nature
- Religion
- Extraction
- Nitrogen
- Analysis
- Donor
- Discharge
- Module
- Genome
- Correspondence
- Wool
- Product
- Determination
- Formation
- Simple
- Critique
- Davidson
- Step
- Classification
- Pair
- Conception
- Activation
- Evolution
- Mineral
- Emergence
- Identity
- Method
- Ion
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
REDUCTIVE, adjective. (Scottish legal) (now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. [from 16th c.]
REDUCTIVE, adjective. Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something. [from 17th c.]
REDUCTIVE, adjective. (chemistry) (metallurgy) (biology) That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form. [from 17th c.]
REDUCTIVE, adjective. (now rare) (historical) That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else. [from 17th c.]
REDUCTIVE, adjective. (now frequently pejorative) That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist. [from 20th c.]
Dictionary definition
REDUCTIVE, adjective. Characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.