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# conducive

«conducive» in Mova's school dictionary: **helping it to happen: «A quiet room is conducive to study»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (conducive, more conducive)

### meaning for a pupil

(formal) Conducive to something means helping it to happen: «A quiet room is conducive to study». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conducive/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In formal writing and exam questions, «conducive to» means «good for» or «helps». Teachers say a tidy classroom is conducive to learning. In science, warm damp conditions are conducive to mould growth.

### examples

- A quiet room is conducive to learning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conducive/#x1)
- Warm, wet weather is conducive to mould. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conducive/#x2)
- Shouting is not conducive to good teamwork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conducive/#x3)
- The calm music was conducive to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conducive/#x4)
- Too much screen time is not conducive to healthy eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conducive/#x5)
- The conditions were conducive to a big storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conducive/#x6)

### note

Formal. Always followed by «to». Pronounced «kon-DYOO-siv». Do not mix up with «conductive» (lets electricity or heat pass through).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conducive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conducive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.