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"
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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.
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when you want to get something reduced or smaller.
If I had calves like that I would get them reducted.
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The practice of providing advice and helpful suggestions to a novice regarding potentially dangerous activities in the hope that they will heed the advice and not cause hurt or harm to themselves or others.
Practicing harm reduction Keith showed Brittany how to IV drugs. According to him he didn't want the wrong person showing her the wrong way, because he knew she was headstrong.
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Reduction of order is a technique in mathematics for solving second-order ordinary differential equations. It is also a technique used in restaurants by math geeks who change their order to an amount less than originally requested.
I went to McDonald's and ordered two Big Macs, but I changed my mind and ordered only one. They didn't like my reduction of order.
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Something Jacksfilms still hasn't got.
My forehead is big, therefore I need a forehead reduction surgery.
This word concisely explains the process in which a woman reduces a man's thought processes and willpower to a level she can control by her practice of the seductive 'arts.' This is a low form of exercising control/influence over others and is primarily engaged in by women with little to no self-respect, and no respect for the man in question.
Example:
Raquelle: What's up with Johnathan? It's like his logic hopped the first train out of town! He is going against everything he ever said he wanted in a woman. He acts like "Monsieur Love," yet he has nothing to demonstrate concrete reasons for this change of mindset.
Michael: I've thought about that, read the signs... and between the lines... and firmly believe he is a victim of seduction reduction.
Raquelle: Ah, me! To be reduced so small my something that promises much but leaves emptiness in the end! May he come to his senses yet!