Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: conducive
IPA transcription: [kənd'usɪv]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: conducive, contributing(a), contributive, contributory, tributary
    Meaning: tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; "working conditions are not conducive to productivity"; "the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city"; "a contributory factor"
Usage examples
  • Conducive to well-being and efficiency
  • is it fit or conducive to temperance for a young man to hear such words? Or the verse
  • A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious; it is an exercise to the Body and if not too violent, is I dare say conducive to Health in its consequences--Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint--"
  • I yield, therefore, to the necessity which compels my reluctant acquiescence; and shall now turn all my thoughts upon considering of such methods for the conducting this enterprise, as may be most conducive to the happiness of my child and least liable to wound her sensibility.
  • My own weakness in that direction is a frequent subject of mirth with chance fellow travelers. The attitude is comfortable and conducive to meditation; and now that I was seated and at my ease, I felt that this was one of the New England luxuries which, almost without knowing it, I had missed ever since I left home.