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conducive

[ kuhn-doo-siv, -dyoo- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to ):
Good eating habits are conducive to good health.

conducive

/ kənˈdjuːsɪv /

First recorded in 1640–50; conduce + -ive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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