Word Meanings - DISCONDUCIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous.

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• IMPEDE
  To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.
• IMPEDIMENT
  That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Syn. -- Hindrance; obstruction;
• IMPEDITE
  Hindered; obstructed. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPEDIMENTAL
  Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes.
• IMPEDITIVE
  Causing hindrance; impeding. "Cumbersome, and impeditive of motion." Bp. Hall.
• IMPEDIMENTA
  Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances; baggage; specif. ,
• IMPEDANCE
  The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current. It is equal to R2 + X2, where R = ohmic
• IMPEDIBLE
  Capable of being impeded or hindered. Jer. Taylor.
• CONDUCTIVE
  Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil. The ovarian walls . . . are seen to be distinctly conductive. Goodale
• IMPEDITION
  A hindering; a hindrance. Baxier.
• DISADVANTAGEOUS
  Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had