CONDUCIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conducive mean? 

• CONDUCIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CONDUCIVE has 1 sense:

1. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for

  Familiarity information: CONDUCIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDUCIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to bring about; being partly responsible for

Synonyms:

conducive; contributing; contributive; contributory; tributary

Context example:

a contributory factor

Similar:

causative (producing an effect)

Derivation:

conduce (be conducive to)

 Context examples 

We considered it conducive to the happiness of all parties that it should be so.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These temperature shifts have a ripple effect on large-scale atmospheric processes conducive to tornado outbreaks across the U.S.

(Ocean temperatures may hold key to predicting tornado outbreaks, NOAA)

A solution, suspension or semi-solid composed of media conducive to microbial growth.

(Culture Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

The propagation of microorganisms or of living tissue cells in special media conducive to their growth.

(Culture Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

When I had arrived at this point and had become as well acquainted with the theory and practice of natural philosophy as depended on the lessons of any of the professors at Ingolstadt, my residence there being no longer conducive to my improvements, I thought of returning to my friends and my native town, when an incident happened that protracted my stay.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Study co-author Alexandra Kravchenko, a Michigan State University plant, soil and microbial scientist, and her colleagues used X-ray micro-tomography and micro-scale enzyme mapping to show how pore structures affect microbial activity and carbon protection in these systems, and how plant diversity then impacts the development of soil pores conducive to greater carbon storage.

(Scientists discover new mechanism for how soils store carbon, National Science Foundation)

When I look at the three massive manuscript volumes which contain our work for the year 1894, I confess that it is very difficult for me, out of such a wealth of material, to select the cases which are most interesting in themselves, and at the same time most conducive to a display of those peculiar powers for which my friend was famous.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conducive to repose of mind or manner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The findings in this latest report suggest all of the fresh-appearing gullies seen on Mars can be attributed to processes currently underway, whereas earlier hypotheses suggested they formed thousands to millions of years ago when climate conditions were possibly conducive to liquid water on Mars.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)