conducive
/kənˈdjuːsɪv/US/kənˈdusɪv/
conducive adjective: tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
Adjective
conducive (comparative more conducive, superlative most conducive)
- Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
- A small, dark kitchen is not conducive to elaborate cooking.
- According to the Roman Pliny the Elder, author of Historia Naturalis, southernwood was conducive to sexual excitement when the plant was placed under the bed.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 227
- Synonyms:
- instrumental, helpful, favorable, conducent
- Antonyms:
- inconducive, unconducive
conducive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
conducive in Hindi
- conducive, helpful, instrumental, effective
- साधक sādhak
conducive in Tamil
- உகந்த, ஏற்ற, வாய்ப்பான, ஏதுவான
conducive in Urdu
- باعث, کارآمد, مائل
conducive in Bengali
- conducive
- সাহায্যকারী śahajjokari
More languagesFewer languages
- conducive in Malayalam
- സഹായകമായ, അനുകൂലമായ, ഉതകുന്ന, ഉപകാരക
- conducive in Kannada
- ಅನುಕೂಲಕರವಾದ, ಸಹಾಯಕವಾದ, ಪೋಷಕವಾದ, ಫಲಪ್ರದವಾದ
- conducive in Malay
- kondusif
- conducive in Indonesian
- kondusif
Examples of conducive in a sentence
- Raucous laughter is not conducive to someone sporting an inflamed netherregion.
- The overlapping governance networks of panarchy have facilitated a context conducive to the above competing multilateralisms.
- Such a schematist approach and methods have always proved restrictive and conducive to some dogma or other.
Synonyms of conducive
Antonyms
Forms of conducive
| comparative | more conducive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most conducive |
Origin of conducive
From conduce + -ive, 1640s, from Latin condūcere, patterned after forms like conductive.
Words formed from conducive
Questions about conducive
- What does conducive mean?
- Conducive means tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
- What is conducive in Hindi?
- Conducive in Hindi is साधक (sādhak). See Conducive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is conducive?
- Conducive is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce conducive?
- Conducive is pronounced /kənˈdjuːsɪv/ (UK).
Words near conducive in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: conducive (page history and authors); साधक (Hindi) (page history and authors); conducive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conducive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সাহায্যকারী (Bengali) (page history and authors); conducive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); conducive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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