Modifies a noun

• dechlorination: Chlorinated solvents may be amenable to biodegradation through the process of reductive dechlorination in natural aquifer systems.

• realist: In fact, it is this last sort of view that most reductive realists during the medieval period actually hold.

• modernism: Return to text We will be discussing Jones's notion of " reductive modernism " below.

• materialism: His hylomorphism, then, embraces neither reductive materialism nor Platonic dualism.

• account: That is, he will resist any reductive account of life.

• approach: I found this a somewhat mechanical and reductive approach, which was too confident in finding singular interpretations for each phase of Titanic remembrance.

Modifying Another Word

• highly: What Henryson is concerned with is a highly reductive reading of Chaucer's text.

• somewhat: The answer is a somewhat reductive, very uncomplicated ' not a lot ' .

• rather: Back-row blogger on... comparing artists Isn't a ' compare and contrast ' approach to art rather reductive, asks Charlotte Higgins.

• extremely: This extremely reductive idea of painting is one reason why Greenberg's concept of modernist fell out of favor in the 1960s.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: To call this situation " farcical " seems reductive.