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CONDUCIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
Example:
a contributory factor
Synonyms:
conducive; contributing; contributive; contributory; tributary
Classified under:
Similar:
causative (producing an effect)
Derivation:
conduce (be conducive to)
Context examples:
I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I'll keep you from the edge of the gulf too; and, moreover, maintain by its pungent aid that distance between you and myself most conducive to our real mutual advantage.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Now that arrangement was not conducive to calm speech or clear thought on Jo's part, for how could she say hard things to her boy while he watched her with eyes full of love and longing, and lashes still wet with the bitter drop or two her hardness of heart had wrung from him?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
