reduced

/rɪˈdust/

/rɪˈdust/

A reduced thing has been lessened or subtracted from. If you want to ride your bike in Italy and you’re on a budget, look for reduced airfare. For a reduced risk of injury, wear a helmet when you get there.

To reduce something is to make it smaller or lessen it in some way. Therefore, anything reduced is smaller than it was before. If you’re pedaling your way through Italy and hit a giant hill, you’ll probably have reduced pedal power and go much slower. This word applies to things that are going down in degree or amount. There could be reduced pain, reduced cost, or reduced size. Anything described as reduced can also be called decreased.

Definitions of reduced

1. adjective

   made less in size or amount or degree
   synonyms: decreased

   ablated

   made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization

   attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened

   reduced in strength

   attenuated

   of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion

   bated

   diminished or moderated

   belittled, diminished, small

   made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

   cut, slashed

   (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply

   diminished

   (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval

   minimized

   reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree

   remittent

   (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity

   shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken

   reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
2. adjective

   well below normal (especially in price)
   synonyms: rock-bottom

   low

   less than normal in degree or intensity or amount