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Reductive
Meaning
Adj
●
In Scottish English & Law:
Pertaining to the
reduction
of a
decree
etc.; rescissory.
●
Causing the physical
reduction
or
diminution
of something.
●
In Biology, Chemistry, Economics & Metallurgy:
That
reduces
a
substance
etc. to a more
simple
or
basic
form.
●
That can be
derived
from, or
referred
back to, something else.
●
That
reduces
an
argument
,
issue
etc. to its most
basic
terms;
simplistic
, reductionist.
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Antonyms
Oxidative
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Reductionist
Simplistic
Facile
Glib
Disingenuous
Myopic
Hyperbolic
Oversimplified
Trite
Wrongheaded
Obtuse
Fallacious
Tendentious
Puerile
Specious
Uncharitable
Presumptuous
Unscientific
Tautological
Superficial
Oversimplistic
Essentialist
Mechanistic
Illogical
Vague
Paternalistic
Subversive
Subjective
Oppressive
Simplified
Elitist
Problematic
Redox
Defeatist
Abstract
Ahistorical
Unrealistic
Provocative
Degradative
Nonsensical
Catalytic
Oxidatively
Oxidising
Oxidizing
Mediated
Oxidative
Oxidant
Oxidation
Photocatalytic
Dichotomous
Nucleophilic
Electrophilic
Enzymatic
Cathodic
Crass
Trivial
Autocatalytic
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