Usually means: Simplifying complex ideas excessively, oversimplifying.
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  1. reductive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reductive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reductive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reductive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reductive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reductive, reductive: Wordnik
  7. reductive: Wiktionary
  8. reductive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. reductive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. reductive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. reductive: Dictionary.com
  12. Reductive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. reductive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. reductive: Rhymezone
  15. Reductive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. reductive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. reductive: Free Dictionary
  18. reductive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. reductive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reductive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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adjective:  (Scots law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.
adjective:  Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.
adjective:  (chemistry, metallurgy, biology, economics) That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form.
adjective:  (now rare, historical) That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else.
adjective:  (now frequently derogatory) That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist.

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