From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reductive \Re*duc"tive\ (-t?v), adjective [Cf. F. r['e]ductif.] Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n. A reductive agent. --Sir M. Hale.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciabory" - R.H.Rovere
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "reductive": 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
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