redudative

Redundantly repetitive.

Teacher got just a bit redudative when giving the same explanation for the fifth time.

redudative by DanDaWriter March 19, 2005

reductive 

Meaning to present a problem in a smaller, more crude form. Searches spiked after Madonna answered to the question "What do you think of Lady Gaga's Born This Way?" with "It's... um.. reductive".

Lady Gaga's song "Born This Way" is reductive. It is a similar song to Madonna's "Express Yourself"

reductive by treybrown10 February 20, 2012

reductive fallacy 

One of the basic logical fallacies is the reductive fallacy, or in Latin, 'reductum ad absurdum'. Basically means taking a normal argument to such a far extreme (reducing it in an absurd manner) as an attempt to try to say it is wrong.

Note this is a logical fallacy. Just because one can think of some far out case.

Look man, if I give you $5 today then I'll have to give you $5 tomorrow, and then I'll be out $5 a day for the rest of my life.

reductive fallacy by Nick November 6, 2003

reductive fallacy 

aka reductio ad absurdum - the premise that something impossible is actually true, and then proving it is ludicrous

All women have blonde hair, which is false when you present a woman with brunette or red hair

reductive fallacy by Brian Colby November 6, 2003

reductive fallacy 

an error of reducing higher or more complex processes, such as human behavior and thinking, to its elementary components or material bearers, such as physiological structures or chemical reactions.

Reductive fallacies abound in the popular works of Carl Sagan. For example, he wrote in his best-selling book The Dragons of Eden": "My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings--what we sometimes call "mind"--are a conse`uence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more".

reductive fallacy by Mikhail Epstein November 6, 2003

reductive 

It's referred to someone who tries to be just like you but that person fails at their attempts.

I bought a beautiful pair of black mate shoes last week and showed them to Max... I saw him with a exact pair this morning, he's so reductive to me.

reductive by Mary Jane Hollands April 8, 2016

Reductive House

In a reductive sense, anything with four-on-the-floor beats is House Music.

Drake, Beyonce, Lizzo and Justin Timberlake are house music, Reductive House.

Reductive House by Bad Grampa July 20, 2022