reductive

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reductive/rɪˈdʌktɪv/

▶adjective

• 1 tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude.

  ■ (with reference to art) minimal.

• 2 relating to chemical reduction.

– derivatives
reductively adverb,
reductiveness noun.