unconducive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not likely to produce or support some desired outcome.
Example Sentences
- "[A]nd anyone who knows the stimulating effect of that beverage is aware that it could not fail to be unconducive to order."
- "About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. […] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?"
- "Harlem is such a place as is full of tension unconducive to the best interest of education."
- ""Because of the unconducive market conditions, we will delay the dollar bond plan.""
Etymology
From un- + conducive.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unconducive (comparative)
most unconducive (superlative)