| Reductive 1. (a.) Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. 2. (n.) A reductive agent. Thesaurus Entries ablative, arrested, backward, coarse, conceptually crude, contractive, crude, declining, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, deductive, deliquescent, diminishing, diminuendo, dwindling, embryonic, erosive, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, intellectually childish, languishing, lessening, on the wane, oversimple, reductionistic, rough, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, simplistic, stunted, subsiding, subtractive, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unlabored, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, untreated, unworked, unwrought, waning |