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Reductive

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

adj. Of or relating to reduction.

adj. Relating to, being an instance of, or exhibiting reductionism.

adj. Relating to or being an instance of reductivism.

adj. Of, pertaining to, or causing physical reduction.

adj. Of or pertaining to reductionism or reductivism.

adj. Of, pertaining to, or causing figurative reduction; belittling, disparaging, ridiculing.

adj. Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.

Having the property, power, or effect of reducing; tending to reduce.

n. That which has the power of reducing.

adj. characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment

"I explained how I had arrived at the assertion that he had described as reductive: Either everything written is literature, or only some of it is."

subtractive

reduction reductive reductive principle reductive conversion

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