英语词汇“reductive”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Reductive things oversimplify information or leave out important details. A reductive argument won't win a debate, because it tries to make a complex issue much too simple.

Your friend may recommend reading the "CliffsNotes" version of "Moby Dick," instead of the novel itself — but if you do, you'll only get a reductive summary of the plot and themes, instead of a long, nuanced book. Reductive shares a root with reduce, or "make smaller," the Latin reducere, "bring back." The earliest meaning of reductive was "that brings back."

WORD FAMILY

reductive: reductively, reductivism+/irreducible: irreducibly/reduce: reduced, reducer, reduces, reducible, reducing, reduction, reductive/reduced: unreduced/reducer: reducers/reducible: irreducible/reduction: reductionism, reductions/reductionism: reductionist

USAGE EXAMPLES

But his book does provide some useful insights into the dangers of propaganda — and its reliance upon mangled facts; false claims; and reductive, Manichaean storytelling.

New York Times(Dec 26, 2016)

The show’s structural organization is reductive, simplifying art’s layered density.

Los Angeles Times(Dec 09, 2016)

Goldberg replied that this was judgmental and reductive.

The New Yorker(Nov 27, 2016)

adj characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment

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

Syn

subtractive

constituting or involving subtraction

单词	reductive
释义	reductive (once / 81513 pages) adj Reductive things oversimplify information or leave out important details. A reductive argument won't win a debate, because it tries to make a complex issue much too simple. Your friend may recommend reading the "CliffsNotes" version of "Moby Dick," instead of the novel itself — but if you do, you'll only get a reductive summary of the plot and themes, instead of a long, nuanced book. Reductive shares a root with reduce, or "make smaller," the Latin reducere, "bring back." The earliest meaning of reductive was "that brings back." WORD FAMILY reductive: reductively, reductivism+/irreducible: irreducibly/reduce: reduced, reducer, reduces, reducible, reducing, reduction, reductive/reduced: unreduced/reducer: reducers/reducible: irreducible/reduction: reductionism, reductions/reductionism: reductionist USAGE EXAMPLES But his book does provide some useful insights into the dangers of propaganda — and its reliance upon mangled facts; false claims; and reductive, Manichaean storytelling. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) The show’s structural organization is reductive, simplifying art’s layered density. Los Angeles Times(Dec 09, 2016) Goldberg replied that this was judgmental and reductive. The New Yorker(Nov 27, 2016) adj characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere Syn subtractive constituting or involving subtraction
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