Adjacent Words

Conducive definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONDUCIVE, a. That may conduce or contribute; having a tendency to promote.
An action, however conducive to the good of our country, will be represented as prejudicial to it.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory, tributary]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1646 tending to promote or assist <an atmosphere conducive to education> • conduciveness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (often foll. by to) contributing or helping (towards something) (not a conducive atmosphere for negotiation; good health is conducive to happiness).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Conducive Con*du"cive, a. Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. However conducive to the good or our country. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If one thing is conducive to another thing, it makes the other thing likely to happen. Sometimes the home environment just isn't conducive to reading. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, usu ADJ to n/-ing

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Conducing, contributing, subservient, instrumental, subsidiary, promotive.

Moby Thesaurus

agential, agentival, agentive, aidful, assisting, beneficial, conducive to, constructive, contributory, employable, facilitating, favoring, forwarding, furthersome, good for, handy, helpful, inclined toward, inclining toward, instrumental, intermediary, leading to, mediating, mediatorial, ministerial, ministering, positive, profitable, promoting, remedial, salutary, serviceable, subservient, tending to, therapeutic, useful