reductive
adjective
of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge.
reductively
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a word derived from
reductive.
Example Sentences
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“Rhinoceros” was written after World War II, and has sometimes been seen, reductively, as a mere antifascist tract.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
This is Shiga’s Imports, a store that could be reductively described as a Japanese gift shop, but it means far more than that to the neighborhood.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
Poitier’s body of work is often spoken of, both rightly and reductively, as a series of historic firsts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
But before you reductively cite "The Handmaid's Tale" as a frame of reference reconsider what it implies.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2021
The sublime and exuberant imagery of the latter exists reductively as an important virtue of the present lyric.
From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Wallace Jackson
