Definition of reductive in English:

reductive

adjective rɪˈdʌktɪvrəˈdəktɪv

1Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude.
有简单化倾向的
such a conclusion by itself would be reductive
孤立地看，此结论有使问题简单化的倾向。
Example sentencesExamples
- It's a reductive attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest.
- Furthermore, the underlying suggestion of an inherent connection between physicality and culture seems awkwardly reductive.
- I thought we were getting overly reductive and simplistic.
- Any professors worthy of the title have strong views, of course, but they should also have a keen sense that those views may be wrong, or based on incomplete evidence, or highly reductive.
- I think people want the discourse to be elevated a little bit, to be a little more challenging with your subject matter, and with your characters, and not reductive about them.
- What is bad about all terror is when it is attached to religious and political abstractions and reductive myths that keep veering away from history and sense.
- Crass, cheap, reductive and - if viewed in a certain light - even rather homophobic?
- Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and reductive of the complexity of the situation.
- Not only is this view reductive, it reinscribes the ethnocentrism of the Britain's imperialist past under the guise of making a ‘safer’ present through the same war-mongering means.
- Science, he argues, is necessarily reductive, and reductive science undermines humanist ideas about phenomena such as consciousness or free will.
- The need to escape the reductive view of sex work as only a career is another important theme in the book, which is developed in the chapters on France, Brazil, Lima, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.
- It is the kind of film that, without being overly simplistic or reductive, you could show to a sixth grade class of students and they would clearly understand ‘what's going down.’
- However, most of the major statements on critical pedagogy reinscribe a more reductive view of power in the classroom.
- He had retreated into a reductive cynicism, whose one belief, and satirical tactic, argued that behind every purportedly noble trend lurked greed, lust or madness.
- This might be too reductive, but there always seems to be a man, a woman and a child as the central axis.
- The imagination, ethics, and, ultimately, logic itself demand a less reductive view.
- But such a view is surely reductive: Young has not only been actively releasing albums throughout the 90s and into the 00s, but several of them been unexpectedly solid as well.
- The comparisons Malick makes are simplistic and reductive.
- We commonly understand stereotyping as a negative and reductive way of reinforcing power relations, eg: ‘Men are better at maths and science than women.’
- ‘It's the most reductive story in the song,’ says Marcus.
1. 1.1 (with reference to art) minimal.
  （艺术）极简抽象艺术的
  he combines his reductive abstract shapes with a rippled surface
  他将极简艺术的抽象形状与波纹表面结合在一起。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Powers's reductive designs playfully reference early works in abstract painting while breaking new territory with their highly creative use of materials.
  Later, in Los Angeles, he gave up painting - reductive abstractions whose compositions suggest some formal relationship to his later work in photography.
  His reductive abstract style, while increasingly planar and hard-edged, remained connected to aspects of the observed world.
  The reductive austerities of Minimalism were followed by a wide range of art movements that brought the body forcefully back into art - although not by the standard mimetic means.
  Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Lundeberg kept pace with her husband, who had developed his own manner of reductive abstraction based on forms of the human body.
  How is it that Max Cole's large acrylic paintings manage to look so fresh in the context of four full decades of reductive abstraction?
  What then is the difference between Minimalism and other expressions of the reductive sensibility?
  Intending a duet of complementary forms, both artists used organic materials to create compositions that are spare and reductive, without overlapping or extraneous elements.
  Perhaps it was the sheer variety of painting styles employed in these abstract paintings that made them seem somewhat imitative and reductive.
  Emphatically framed by the terrace walls, the Inland Sea looks painted, while Sugimoto's black-and-white photos are so reductive that they evoke abstract paintings.
  Her paintings are executed in vibrant palettes and flat, broad shapes, their reductive surfaces reminiscent of advertising billboards, as well as the cool, illustrative portraits of Alex Katz.
  His figures are made from reductive shapes - circles, squares, cones - that create a kind of shorthand of the body in much the same way that a cartoonist might employ characterisation techniques.
  Deeton's new works might be described as reductive minimalism for those who don't like reductive minimalism.
  Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism.
  There is a reductive, Minimalist character to this work as well.
  Painting came off best, taking two primary directions: reductive abstraction and figurative work characterized by a dispassionate folksiness.
  Six subsequent landscapes become successively more reductive, as both the fiver and the horizon are eliminated from view.
  Jones is a master of the reductive impulse, a maker of rigorously crafted geometric abstractions that function as emblems of energy, generators of metaphor.
  The richly textured geometric shapes and reductive ground recall certain works by Nicholson, while the fractured landscape elements hint at Nash.
  Heard carelessly, this sound/music may not impress, its apparent minimalism striking the listener as overly reductive.
2Relating to chemical reduction.
（与）还原反应（有关）的
the reductive elimination of acetyl iodide
Example sentencesExamples
- Malic enzyme catalyses the reductive decarboxylation of malate to pyruvate.
- Their contention, supported by the evidence of Professor Baldwin, is that both oxidative and reductive pathways involve the enol.
- This pair may accept a proton either in the oxidative or reductive phase, which in turn causes release of a proton to the water pool.
- NO, with its unpaired electron, is a free radical capable of undergoing various oxidative and reductive reactions, whereas CO is relatively inert.
- Coke, which is pyrolyzed from coal in the coke oven, is a reductive reactant used in steel plants.

Derivatives

reductively

adverb rɪˈdʌktɪvlirəˈdəktɪvli

To put it differently and a little reductively, we have two sets of desires, and they issue in at least the two responses.
Example sentencesExamples
- So, if living systems cannot be reductively defined in some other way, it will follow that no reductive account of life will be forthcoming.
- Do we perceive symbols reductively, through the filter of our own experience, and if so how do we know we are seeing what the artist intended?
- Work by women, for example, if it's noticed at all, is usually noticed reductively.
- The dangers of writing either melodramatically or reductively about the slaughter and terror at the center of these new killing fields are all too real.

reductiveness

noun

Let me state this point in a different way: the reductiveness of the usual kind of ‘historical background’ has its appeal, and also its utility.
Example sentencesExamples
- To be fair, Simpson ends by offering suggestions to avoid reductiveness of this sort.
- Aghion, moreover, covers all the relevant topics in sufficient depth to escape any suspicion of reductiveness, at least as far as I am concerned.
- We're left with a social parable of mind-boggling reductiveness.
- Using next to nothing, he activates the whole sheet; the reductiveness makes you acutely aware of every mark and blemish.

Definition of reductive in US English:

reductive

adjectiverəˈdəktivrəˈdəktɪv

1Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude.
有简单化倾向的
such a conclusion by itself would be reductive
孤立地看，此结论有使问题简单化的倾向。
Example sentencesExamples
- Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and reductive of the complexity of the situation.
- The comparisons Malick makes are simplistic and reductive.
- The imagination, ethics, and, ultimately, logic itself demand a less reductive view.
- Furthermore, the underlying suggestion of an inherent connection between physicality and culture seems awkwardly reductive.
- Crass, cheap, reductive and - if viewed in a certain light - even rather homophobic?
- He had retreated into a reductive cynicism, whose one belief, and satirical tactic, argued that behind every purportedly noble trend lurked greed, lust or madness.
- But such a view is surely reductive: Young has not only been actively releasing albums throughout the 90s and into the 00s, but several of them been unexpectedly solid as well.
- We commonly understand stereotyping as a negative and reductive way of reinforcing power relations, eg: ‘Men are better at maths and science than women.’
- Science, he argues, is necessarily reductive, and reductive science undermines humanist ideas about phenomena such as consciousness or free will.
- The need to escape the reductive view of sex work as only a career is another important theme in the book, which is developed in the chapters on France, Brazil, Lima, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.
- It's a reductive attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest.
- This might be too reductive, but there always seems to be a man, a woman and a child as the central axis.
- ‘It's the most reductive story in the song,’ says Marcus.
- Any professors worthy of the title have strong views, of course, but they should also have a keen sense that those views may be wrong, or based on incomplete evidence, or highly reductive.
- What is bad about all terror is when it is attached to religious and political abstractions and reductive myths that keep veering away from history and sense.
- I thought we were getting overly reductive and simplistic.
- However, most of the major statements on critical pedagogy reinscribe a more reductive view of power in the classroom.
- I think people want the discourse to be elevated a little bit, to be a little more challenging with your subject matter, and with your characters, and not reductive about them.
- It is the kind of film that, without being overly simplistic or reductive, you could show to a sixth grade class of students and they would clearly understand ‘what's going down.’
- Not only is this view reductive, it reinscribes the ethnocentrism of the Britain's imperialist past under the guise of making a ‘safer’ present through the same war-mongering means.
1. 1.1 (with reference to art) minimal.
  （艺术）极简抽象艺术的
  he combines his reductive abstract shapes with a rippled surface
  他将极简艺术的抽象形状与波纹表面结合在一起。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Intending a duet of complementary forms, both artists used organic materials to create compositions that are spare and reductive, without overlapping or extraneous elements.
  Deeton's new works might be described as reductive minimalism for those who don't like reductive minimalism.
  Heard carelessly, this sound/music may not impress, its apparent minimalism striking the listener as overly reductive.
  There is a reductive, Minimalist character to this work as well.
  The reductive austerities of Minimalism were followed by a wide range of art movements that brought the body forcefully back into art - although not by the standard mimetic means.
  Her paintings are executed in vibrant palettes and flat, broad shapes, their reductive surfaces reminiscent of advertising billboards, as well as the cool, illustrative portraits of Alex Katz.
  His reductive abstract style, while increasingly planar and hard-edged, remained connected to aspects of the observed world.
  Later, in Los Angeles, he gave up painting - reductive abstractions whose compositions suggest some formal relationship to his later work in photography.
  Jones is a master of the reductive impulse, a maker of rigorously crafted geometric abstractions that function as emblems of energy, generators of metaphor.
  Six subsequent landscapes become successively more reductive, as both the fiver and the horizon are eliminated from view.
  Emphatically framed by the terrace walls, the Inland Sea looks painted, while Sugimoto's black-and-white photos are so reductive that they evoke abstract paintings.
  What then is the difference between Minimalism and other expressions of the reductive sensibility?
  The richly textured geometric shapes and reductive ground recall certain works by Nicholson, while the fractured landscape elements hint at Nash.
  Powers's reductive designs playfully reference early works in abstract painting while breaking new territory with their highly creative use of materials.
  Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism.
  Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Lundeberg kept pace with her husband, who had developed his own manner of reductive abstraction based on forms of the human body.
  Perhaps it was the sheer variety of painting styles employed in these abstract paintings that made them seem somewhat imitative and reductive.
  Painting came off best, taking two primary directions: reductive abstraction and figurative work characterized by a dispassionate folksiness.
  His figures are made from reductive shapes - circles, squares, cones - that create a kind of shorthand of the body in much the same way that a cartoonist might employ characterisation techniques.
  How is it that Max Cole's large acrylic paintings manage to look so fresh in the context of four full decades of reductive abstraction?
2Relating to chemical reduction.
（与）还原反应（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- Coke, which is pyrolyzed from coal in the coke oven, is a reductive reactant used in steel plants.
- NO, with its unpaired electron, is a free radical capable of undergoing various oxidative and reductive reactions, whereas CO is relatively inert.
- Malic enzyme catalyses the reductive decarboxylation of malate to pyruvate.
- Their contention, supported by the evidence of Professor Baldwin, is that both oxidative and reductive pathways involve the enol.
- This pair may accept a proton either in the oxidative or reductive phase, which in turn causes release of a proton to the water pool.

单词	reductive
释义	Definition of reductive in English: reductive adjective rɪˈdʌktɪvrəˈdəktɪv 1Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude. 有简单化倾向的 such a conclusion by itself would be reductive 孤立地看，此结论有使问题简单化的倾向。 Example sentencesExamples It's a reductive attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest. Furthermore, the underlying suggestion of an inherent connection between physicality and culture seems awkwardly reductive. I thought we were getting overly reductive and simplistic. Any professors worthy of the title have strong views, of course, but they should also have a keen sense that those views may be wrong, or based on incomplete evidence, or highly reductive. I think people want the discourse to be elevated a little bit, to be a little more challenging with your subject matter, and with your characters, and not reductive about them. What is bad about all terror is when it is attached to religious and political abstractions and reductive myths that keep veering away from history and sense. Crass, cheap, reductive and - if viewed in a certain light - even rather homophobic? Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and reductive of the complexity of the situation. Not only is this view reductive, it reinscribes the ethnocentrism of the Britain's imperialist past under the guise of making a ‘safer’ present through the same war-mongering means. Science, he argues, is necessarily reductive, and reductive science undermines humanist ideas about phenomena such as consciousness or free will. The need to escape the reductive view of sex work as only a career is another important theme in the book, which is developed in the chapters on France, Brazil, Lima, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. It is the kind of film that, without being overly simplistic or reductive, you could show to a sixth grade class of students and they would clearly understand ‘what's going down.’ However, most of the major statements on critical pedagogy reinscribe a more reductive view of power in the classroom. He had retreated into a reductive cynicism, whose one belief, and satirical tactic, argued that behind every purportedly noble trend lurked greed, lust or madness. This might be too reductive, but there always seems to be a man, a woman and a child as the central axis. The imagination, ethics, and, ultimately, logic itself demand a less reductive view. But such a view is surely reductive: Young has not only been actively releasing albums throughout the 90s and into the 00s, but several of them been unexpectedly solid as well. The comparisons Malick makes are simplistic and reductive. We commonly understand stereotyping as a negative and reductive way of reinforcing power relations, eg: ‘Men are better at maths and science than women.’ ‘It's the most reductive story in the song,’ says Marcus. 1.1 (with reference to art) minimal. （艺术）极简抽象艺术的 he combines his reductive abstract shapes with a rippled surface 他将极简艺术的抽象形状与波纹表面结合在一起。 Example sentencesExamples Powers's reductive designs playfully reference early works in abstract painting while breaking new territory with their highly creative use of materials. Later, in Los Angeles, he gave up painting - reductive abstractions whose compositions suggest some formal relationship to his later work in photography. His reductive abstract style, while increasingly planar and hard-edged, remained connected to aspects of the observed world. The reductive austerities of Minimalism were followed by a wide range of art movements that brought the body forcefully back into art - although not by the standard mimetic means. Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Lundeberg kept pace with her husband, who had developed his own manner of reductive abstraction based on forms of the human body. How is it that Max Cole's large acrylic paintings manage to look so fresh in the context of four full decades of reductive abstraction? What then is the difference between Minimalism and other expressions of the reductive sensibility? Intending a duet of complementary forms, both artists used organic materials to create compositions that are spare and reductive, without overlapping or extraneous elements. Perhaps it was the sheer variety of painting styles employed in these abstract paintings that made them seem somewhat imitative and reductive. Emphatically framed by the terrace walls, the Inland Sea looks painted, while Sugimoto's black-and-white photos are so reductive that they evoke abstract paintings. Her paintings are executed in vibrant palettes and flat, broad shapes, their reductive surfaces reminiscent of advertising billboards, as well as the cool, illustrative portraits of Alex Katz. His figures are made from reductive shapes - circles, squares, cones - that create a kind of shorthand of the body in much the same way that a cartoonist might employ characterisation techniques. Deeton's new works might be described as reductive minimalism for those who don't like reductive minimalism. Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism. There is a reductive, Minimalist character to this work as well. Painting came off best, taking two primary directions: reductive abstraction and figurative work characterized by a dispassionate folksiness. Six subsequent landscapes become successively more reductive, as both the fiver and the horizon are eliminated from view. Jones is a master of the reductive impulse, a maker of rigorously crafted geometric abstractions that function as emblems of energy, generators of metaphor. The richly textured geometric shapes and reductive ground recall certain works by Nicholson, while the fractured landscape elements hint at Nash. Heard carelessly, this sound/music may not impress, its apparent minimalism striking the listener as overly reductive. 2Relating to chemical reduction. （与）还原反应（有关）的 the reductive elimination of acetyl iodide Example sentencesExamples Malic enzyme catalyses the reductive decarboxylation of malate to pyruvate. Their contention, supported by the evidence of Professor Baldwin, is that both oxidative and reductive pathways involve the enol. This pair may accept a proton either in the oxidative or reductive phase, which in turn causes release of a proton to the water pool. NO, with its unpaired electron, is a free radical capable of undergoing various oxidative and reductive reactions, whereas CO is relatively inert. Coke, which is pyrolyzed from coal in the coke oven, is a reductive reactant used in steel plants. Derivatives reductively adverb rɪˈdʌktɪvlirəˈdəktɪvli To put it differently and a little reductively, we have two sets of desires, and they issue in at least the two responses. Example sentencesExamples So, if living systems cannot be reductively defined in some other way, it will follow that no reductive account of life will be forthcoming. Do we perceive symbols reductively, through the filter of our own experience, and if so how do we know we are seeing what the artist intended? Work by women, for example, if it's noticed at all, is usually noticed reductively. The dangers of writing either melodramatically or reductively about the slaughter and terror at the center of these new killing fields are all too real. reductiveness noun Let me state this point in a different way: the reductiveness of the usual kind of ‘historical background’ has its appeal, and also its utility. Example sentencesExamples To be fair, Simpson ends by offering suggestions to avoid reductiveness of this sort. Aghion, moreover, covers all the relevant topics in sufficient depth to escape any suspicion of reductiveness, at least as far as I am concerned. We're left with a social parable of mind-boggling reductiveness. Using next to nothing, he activates the whole sheet; the reductiveness makes you acutely aware of every mark and blemish. Definition of reductive in US English: reductive adjectiverəˈdəktivrəˈdəktɪv 1Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude. 有简单化倾向的 such a conclusion by itself would be reductive 孤立地看，此结论有使问题简单化的倾向。 Example sentencesExamples Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and reductive of the complexity of the situation. The comparisons Malick makes are simplistic and reductive. The imagination, ethics, and, ultimately, logic itself demand a less reductive view. Furthermore, the underlying suggestion of an inherent connection between physicality and culture seems awkwardly reductive. Crass, cheap, reductive and - if viewed in a certain light - even rather homophobic? He had retreated into a reductive cynicism, whose one belief, and satirical tactic, argued that behind every purportedly noble trend lurked greed, lust or madness. But such a view is surely reductive: Young has not only been actively releasing albums throughout the 90s and into the 00s, but several of them been unexpectedly solid as well. We commonly understand stereotyping as a negative and reductive way of reinforcing power relations, eg: ‘Men are better at maths and science than women.’ Science, he argues, is necessarily reductive, and reductive science undermines humanist ideas about phenomena such as consciousness or free will. The need to escape the reductive view of sex work as only a career is another important theme in the book, which is developed in the chapters on France, Brazil, Lima, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. It's a reductive attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest. This might be too reductive, but there always seems to be a man, a woman and a child as the central axis. ‘It's the most reductive story in the song,’ says Marcus. Any professors worthy of the title have strong views, of course, but they should also have a keen sense that those views may be wrong, or based on incomplete evidence, or highly reductive. What is bad about all terror is when it is attached to religious and political abstractions and reductive myths that keep veering away from history and sense. I thought we were getting overly reductive and simplistic. However, most of the major statements on critical pedagogy reinscribe a more reductive view of power in the classroom. I think people want the discourse to be elevated a little bit, to be a little more challenging with your subject matter, and with your characters, and not reductive about them. It is the kind of film that, without being overly simplistic or reductive, you could show to a sixth grade class of students and they would clearly understand ‘what's going down.’ Not only is this view reductive, it reinscribes the ethnocentrism of the Britain's imperialist past under the guise of making a ‘safer’ present through the same war-mongering means. 1.1 (with reference to art) minimal. （艺术）极简抽象艺术的 he combines his reductive abstract shapes with a rippled surface 他将极简艺术的抽象形状与波纹表面结合在一起。 Example sentencesExamples Intending a duet of complementary forms, both artists used organic materials to create compositions that are spare and reductive, without overlapping or extraneous elements. Deeton's new works might be described as reductive minimalism for those who don't like reductive minimalism. Heard carelessly, this sound/music may not impress, its apparent minimalism striking the listener as overly reductive. There is a reductive, Minimalist character to this work as well. The reductive austerities of Minimalism were followed by a wide range of art movements that brought the body forcefully back into art - although not by the standard mimetic means. Her paintings are executed in vibrant palettes and flat, broad shapes, their reductive surfaces reminiscent of advertising billboards, as well as the cool, illustrative portraits of Alex Katz. His reductive abstract style, while increasingly planar and hard-edged, remained connected to aspects of the observed world. Later, in Los Angeles, he gave up painting - reductive abstractions whose compositions suggest some formal relationship to his later work in photography. Jones is a master of the reductive impulse, a maker of rigorously crafted geometric abstractions that function as emblems of energy, generators of metaphor. Six subsequent landscapes become successively more reductive, as both the fiver and the horizon are eliminated from view. Emphatically framed by the terrace walls, the Inland Sea looks painted, while Sugimoto's black-and-white photos are so reductive that they evoke abstract paintings. What then is the difference between Minimalism and other expressions of the reductive sensibility? The richly textured geometric shapes and reductive ground recall certain works by Nicholson, while the fractured landscape elements hint at Nash. Powers's reductive designs playfully reference early works in abstract painting while breaking new territory with their highly creative use of materials. Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism. Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Lundeberg kept pace with her husband, who had developed his own manner of reductive abstraction based on forms of the human body. Perhaps it was the sheer variety of painting styles employed in these abstract paintings that made them seem somewhat imitative and reductive. Painting came off best, taking two primary directions: reductive abstraction and figurative work characterized by a dispassionate folksiness. His figures are made from reductive shapes - circles, squares, cones - that create a kind of shorthand of the body in much the same way that a cartoonist might employ characterisation techniques. How is it that Max Cole's large acrylic paintings manage to look so fresh in the context of four full decades of reductive abstraction? 2Relating to chemical reduction. （与）还原反应（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples Coke, which is pyrolyzed from coal in the coke oven, is a reductive reactant used in steel plants. NO, with its unpaired electron, is a free radical capable of undergoing various oxidative and reductive reactions, whereas CO is relatively inert. Malic enzyme catalyses the reductive decarboxylation of malate to pyruvate. Their contention, supported by the evidence of Professor Baldwin, is that both oxidative and reductive pathways involve the enol. This pair may accept a proton either in the oxidative or reductive phase, which in turn causes release of a proton to the water pool.
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