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Reductive Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ive

Reductive has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment

"their views of life were reductive and depreciatory"

2

Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.

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