Synonyms for reductive
rɪˈdʌk tɪvre·duc·tive

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1. reductiveadjective

   characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment

   "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere

   Antonyms:
   additive

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1. List of paraphrases for "reductive":

   reductionist, reductant, simplistic

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1. Nelson Moses:

   These are helpful but seem to be reductive and appear to pay mere lip service.

2. National Security Adviser Susan Rice:

   We reject reductive reasoning and lazy rhetoric that says conflict between the U.S. and China is inevitable even as we've been tough with China where we disagree, this isn't a zero sum game.

3. Stacey Abrams:

   But let’s be clear : Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas. It’s why you’re concerned about how much food costs, for women, this is not a reductive issue. You ca n’t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child. And so these are — it’s important for us to have ‘ both and ’ conversations. We do n’t have the luxury of reducing it or separating them out. Stacey Abrams SAYS SHE'S' BEEN IN CONVERSATIONS' WITH THE WHITE HOUSE, WANTS BIDEN TO JOIN HER ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL.

4. Michael Bierut:

   I think more than anything else, Hillary Clinton had come up with a reductive message that The People could interpret as The People own personal dog whistle if The People wanted, about what kind of America The People wanted restored and what was insufficient about the current America that needed to be undone.

5. Stuart Ringholt:

   It seems absurd to bring a bunch of beautifully dressed people into the gallery when we can bring in a bunch of nude people, we seem to forget the nude is really important to art history. The museum in itself is reductive -- we have the idea of the white cube but why have we then reduced the viewer through their clothing?