conducive
tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
Origin of conducive
1Other words from conducive
- 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
Words Nearby conducive
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How to use conducive in a sentence
The platform’s short videos, which often feature snappy choreography to catchy music, are particularly conducive to being deepfaked to mesmerizing effect.
Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird | Karen Hao | August 28, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThat allowed them to predict warm and dry conditions that were conducive to fire, says Harry Hendon, a meteorologist at the bureau.
Improved three-week weather forecasts could save lives from disaster | Alexandra Witze | August 27, 2020 | Science NewsThe 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.
Log Cabin’s new project seeks to duplicate success of Grenell video | Chris Johnson | August 26, 2020 | Washington BladeWhen the activity card was first introduced, it was more conducive to repeat site visits.
Google’s new features for product, job and recipe activity cards usher users along their journey | George Nguyen | August 18, 2020 | Search Engine LandA 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.
Bulls lay out their case for stocks to hit record highs, and to keep climbing | Bernhard Warner | August 18, 2020 | Fortune
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.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowIt may have been that the seclusion was not a little conducive to his successful literary labors.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyThe 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.
The White Desert | Courtney Ryley CooperPoetry and music were used to a limited degree, so far as they might be made conducive to forming the traits of the soldier.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for conducive
/ (kənˈdjuːsɪv) /
(when postpositive, foll by to) contributing, leading, or tending
Derived forms of conducive
- conduciveness, noun
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