reductive
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7.9
- adjective
- /rɪˈdʌktɪv/
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reduccionista
- I, I, I think that's too reductive and it's not that simple.
- reductive account
- reductive notion
- reductive view
Justin Trudeau wanted to make us play these silly, reductive political games.
- Justin Trudeau wanted to make us play these silly, reductive political games.
- It sounds kind of like, you know, cheap, reductive, easy writing sort of sort of thing.
- So some panpsychists think we can tell a reductive story about that and that will be great.
- There isn't any sort of natural, scientific, reductive explanation that's going to make sense out of death.
- And we don't just sort of shoehorn them into to reductive categories, but we, you know, we really look through them.
- They all understood that there's no silver bullet, no single formula, no reductive list.
- It is reductive to reduce your thoughts and perspectives just to a group or a race.
- I think with with Born to Run, it became a little bit reductive in the sense that everyone just thought it was about minimalism and barefoot running.
- And this idea that we're presented with and this, this, how can I put it, reductive?
- Describe Brad Gerstner and you know, on the one very reductive world, Brad and I are theoretically competitors, but we're not.
Examples
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Some have argued that Coupland's souvenirs provide a reductive view of the nation.
Academic text (2013) -
Margaret once stymied a journalist who wanted yet another reductive version of the causes of the war.
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- Seems a little reductive.
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- This feels a little reductive.
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A typically reductive inquiry, Doctor.
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On the one hand, "fantastic" is merely a label like any other, and thus reductive and arbitrary.
Academic text (1999) -
But that was before I really understood the reductive power of the close-up.
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It is reductive to reduce your thoughts and perspectives just to a group or a race.
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Yet one should be wary of a reductive explanation of the role of hunger in the novel.
Academic text (2003) -
Describing complex social issues in a single sentence can be overly reductive and misleading.
Synonyms
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6.0
To treat a difficult problem as too simple and misleading
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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8.2
A way of looking at a subject that makes it seem simpler than it really is
How Reductive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word reductive comes from reduce, which breaks into re- 'back' and duct 'to lead', the same root you see in conduct and product. So, calling an idea reductive says it has been 'led back' or made smaller and too simple, which is why it often misses important details.