conducive

[ kuhn-doo-siv, -dyoo- ]

adjective

1. tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to ):

   Good eating habits are conducive to good health.

conducive

/ kənˈdjuːsɪv /

adjective

1. whenpostpositive, foll by to contributing, leading, or tending

Derived Forms

• conˈduciveness, noun

Other Words From

• con·ducive·ness noun
• noncon·ducive adjective
• noncon·ducive·ness noun
• uncon·ducive adjective
• uncon·ducive·ly adverb
• uncon·ducive·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of conducive¹

First recorded in 1640–50; conduce + -ive

Example Sentences

The platform’s short videos, which often feature snappy choreography to catchy music, are particularly conducive to being deepfaked to mesmerizing effect.

From MIT Technology Review

That allowed them to predict warm and dry conditions that were conducive to fire, says Harry Hendon, a meteorologist at the bureau.

From Science News

The organization is known for having a modest budget not exactly conducive to producing slick videos like the kind featuring Grenell or a media platform with multiple contributions.

From Washington Blade

When the activity card was first introduced, it was more conducive to repeat site visits.

From Search Engine Land

A prolonged period of slow growth, low inflation, low interest rates and massive policy accommodations will likely be a period that is conducive to sound performance from credit and equities.

From Fortune

That personality is not conducive to getting things done in Washington, at least not the Washington of today.

From The Daily Beast

He was thinking big from the beginning, which is admirable but not always conducive to taut storylines.

From The Daily Beast

So much so that it could actually be conducive to Palestinians demanding the vote en masse, with their fate at stake.

From The Daily Beast

The school describes itself as “an educational institution conducive to an Islamic learning environment.”

From The Daily Beast

But the statisticians cannot tell us what we most want to know: Are these trends conducive to human flourishing?

From The Daily Beast

But the system was unsatisfactory, led to jealousies, weakened discipline, and was not conducive to efficient working.

From Project Gutenberg

It may have been that the seclusion was not a little conducive to his successful literary labors.

From Project Gutenberg

The temperance, moreover, which it compels in those who cannot eat sea provisions, is very conducive to health.

From Project Gutenberg

And the features of the agent, as he stared up from the rattling telegraph key, were not conducive to relief.

From Project Gutenberg

Poetry and music were used to a limited degree, so far as they might be made conducive to forming the traits of the soldier.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• helpful
• useful