See also Motive
English[]
Etymology[]
Latin motivus
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Noun[]
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Motive ({{{1}}})
- An incentive to act; a reason for doing something; anything that prompted a choice of action.
- What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?
- No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.
- Alternative spelling of motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
- If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.
Synonyms[]
- (incentive) motivation
Translations[]
that which incites to action
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theme or subject
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guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art
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Verb[]
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to Motive (third-person singular simple present motives, present participle motiving, simple past and past participle motived)
- (transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
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to prompt or incite
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Adjective[]
Motive (not comparable)
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- Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 195:
- In the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions; not only in those of Quadrupeds, but in the thigh-bone, legge, foot-bone, and claws of Birds.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 195:
- Relating to motion and/or to its cause
Synonyms[]
- moving
- (relating to motion) motional
Translations[]
causing motion
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Relating to motion and/or to its cause
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Anagrams[]
- eimotv,
- move it
Croatian[]
Noun[]
Motive m. (plural)[[Category:Template:Hr noun forms|Motive]]
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Motive
- imperative form of motiver
- singular present imperfect form of motiver
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Pronunciation[]
- IPA: [moˈtive]
Noun[]
motive n. pl.
- Plural form of motiv.
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Verb[]
Motive (infinitive motivar)
- formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of motivar.
- first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of motivar.
- formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of motivar.
- third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of motivar.
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