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Conducive vs Beneficial - What's the difference?

conducive | beneficial |

As adjectives the difference between conducive and beneficial

is that conducive is tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result while beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone.

conducive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
  • A small, dark kitchen is not conducive to elaborate cooking.

    Antonyms

    * inconducive * unconducive

    See also

    * conduce

    beneficial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Helpful or good to something or someone.
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  • , title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial . It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}

    Synonyms

    *

    Antonyms

    * detrimental * harmful * unfavourable

    Derived terms

    * beneficial owner