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reductive

/ri-duhk-tiv/US // rɪˈdʌk tɪv //

还原性,还原,还原性的,还原的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
    • : of or relating to change from one form to another: reductive chemical processes.
    • : employing an analysis of a complex subject into a simplified, less detailed form; of, pertaining to, or employing reductionism; reductionistic.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something causing or inducing a reductive process.

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Examples

  • The thought that I stand for all of The Post — a newsroom of over a thousand journalists — is, of course, quite reductive.

  • This truncated form of information, as opposed to knowledge, that we get presented with online is often really reductive, binary and dogmatic.

  • Describing himself seems "unnecessarily reductive," though he acknowledges self-definition can be empowering for marginalized communities.

  • But, showing his focus wasn’t just on the miniscule and reductive in science, he was also a pioneer in the field of public health.

  • Because it's too cautious to dramatize real problems and too reductive to tackle them realistically.

  • But it would be reductive to make that parallel a blanket one.

  • He had read a positive review of his own work that nonetheless struck him as reductive and inaccurate.

  • It is all too easy to be heavy-handed and reductive, something of which Freud himself was guilty on many occasions.

  • Eric Foner complains that Spielberg's Lincoln is unacceptably reductive.

  • Now that the law compels a list of dangerous drugs on the label, the cures proceed admittedly by a reductive principle.

  • At a boiling heat, in presence of dilute acids, it is split up, yielding a reductive sugar.