conducive

con·du·cive

adj \kən-ˈdü-siv, -ˈdyü-\

Definition of CONDUCIVE

: tending to promote or assist <an atmosphere conducive to education>

— con·du·cive·ness noun

Examples of CONDUCIVE

1. <the claim that the state's long-standing antitax attitude is conducive to entrepreneurship>
2. <the noisy environment of the dorms was not very conducive to studying>
3. … air-conditioner cooling towers on the roof provided a conducive summertime abode, from which the germs circulated throughout the edifice in a fine infectious mist. —Wayne Biddle, A Field Guide to Germs, 1995
4. To the extent to which the political realm is more conducive to rational choice, compared with the social realm which is governed by material and economic concerns, it is in politics that the potentiality for freedom lies. —Gertrude Himmelfarb, The New History and the Old, 1987
5. It was a hard time, and not conducive to obedience and warmth, and fairly soon I was tucked into a kindly concentration camp for budding Christians … —M.F.K. Fisher, Journal of Gastronomy, Summer 1984
6. The small hat of woven green plastic raffia, the jazzy short-sleeved shirt (fundamentally orange), the pale blue shorts, were not garments conducive to dignity. —A. N. Wilson, Scandal or Priscilla's Kindness, 1983

Origin of CONDUCIVE

(see conduce)

First Known Use: 1646

Related to CONDUCIVE

Synonyms: facilitative

Antonyms: unhelpful, useless

Related Words: advantageous, beneficial, favorable, helpful, profitable, propitious, salutary

Near Antonyms: bad, damaging, deleterious, disadvantageous, harmful, injurious, unfavorable, unhelpful

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Rhymes with CONDUCIVE

allusive, collusive, conclusive, delusive, diffusive, effusive, elusive, exclusive, extrusive, illusive, inclusive, intrusive, obtrusive, preclusive, prelusive, protrusive, reclusive, suffusive