Motif is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MOTIF in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (French) a distinctive idea, esp. a theme elaborated on in a piece of music, literature, etc.
• a decorative image or design, especially a repeated one forming a pattern
• a decorative device applied to a garment or textile
• a dominant or recurring idea in an artistic work
• a leitmotif or figure (see figure (sense 5 of the noun))
• a distinctive sequence on a protein or DNA, having a three-dimensional structure that allows binding interactions to occur.
• (recurring) theme or design
• Motive.
• a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration
• a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music
• a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a recurring thematic element in an artistic work

Words related to MOTIF

motifs11

Words that contain MOTIF

motifs11 motific14 leitmotif14 leitmotifs15

How to use MOTIF in a sentence

• Her lap was covered by a blanket with a Southwestern motif.
• It was a bold new motif creeping in among ancient and venerable airs.
• A second difference of even greater portent was the motif of gathering.
• As a motif, in song and story, it constantly crops up.
• If, she reflected cynically, this man beside her stood for such a motif in her life, he might better have left her out in the swamped canoe.
• Betty happened to have bluebird plates and she used paper napkins with a bluebird motif.
• All that is significant in the civilizations of the past is, in a sense, the result of this teaching motif.
• The Iranian motif was adopted in the romances of Alexander the Great and so passed into European literature.
• When he gave over trying to inject a theological motif into the conversation, he found MacLeod responsive enough.
• He was beginning to grasp the motif of the wilderness, to understand in a measure that to those who adapted themselves thereto it was a sanctuary.
• First one, then another went to the piano and ran through some motif that the rest hummed a little first, then shouted in a rousing chorus.
• By the time we had reached our own place the remarks had swelled to a chorus with a deplorable motif.
• The way in which matters are temporarily adjusted forms the motif of the story.
• These bands carried out in the azure groundwork and the golden threads the motif of the rug.
• The motif of the tale and the kind of life described in it alike show the primitive conditions out of which it had its rise.
• Hence a motif that may seem to us insufficient and remote as the subject of a great epic arose out of the necessities of actual life.
• Now if the ordinary order cells be represented by white, and the reverse ordinary by black, just such a pattern has been created as forms the decorative motif of the quilt.
• The use of significant motif is in both of his symphonies.
• It is all based on the motif of the Wagner drama and of the Liszt symphonies, and it is carried to quite as fine a point.
• The piece was soft and gentle, with a pathetic motif running through it.
• Ballads of popular origin and ballads with an added sentimental touch, such as the famous Strassburg poem with the added Alpine horn motif, are found here.
• She repudiated any reality that went contrary to the motif of finding the entity through simple pleasures of the senses experienced in the present moment.
• They are there only because of the main motif, to help to express it.

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