Motive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MOTIVE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to inspire to action, also MOTIVATE
• To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
• motivate
NOUN:
• a reason for doing something
• a motif in art, literature, or music.
• reason for a course of action
• That which moves; a mover.
• That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
• The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.
• That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.
• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior
• a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music
• a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration
ADJECTIVE:
• producing physical or mechanical motion
• causing or being the reason for something
• Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
• causing or able to cause motion
• impelling to action
• causing motion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to motivate

Words related to MOTIVE

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Words that contain MOTIVE

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How to use MOTIVE in a sentence

• They were indeed misled, but by no base or selfish motive.
• The frankly related story of Ethel had supplied Louise with the motive for the crime, for that a crime had been committed she was now doubly sure.
• The army, also, being discouraged, and losing all motive for resistance, yielded too.
• Its object and motive are their convenience and welfare.
• He had lost all motive for sustained exertion, all desire to become rich.
• What I did then was not from necessity, but, perhaps, from a less excusable motive, and was by no means chargeable to the account of the captain.
• But there is no necessity for travelling beyond the line of ordinary human motive in order to discover a reason for the works in question.
• There is another motive, and a very solemn one, to be urged upon those who are delaying.
• Tacitus, as usual, gives a practical rather than a strategic motive.
• Tacitus, feeling the same, offers a merely human motive.
• She was a creature to whom a great love and devotion were essential as motive forces.
• His motive, she felt certain, was curiosity to learn what his letter had brought about.
• If the meaning I have found in this phrase seems to you far-fetched, we have but to give a higher pitch to the motive to render the idea absolutely impossible.
• The Lord knew this, and knew also that his motive was not one of idle curiosity, but honest desire to see him and to learn something more concerning him.
• The Senate express the motive for this proposition, to be a fear that the Representatives would not keep the secret.
• If, however, circumstances should ever oblige us to show a preference, a respect for our character, if we had no better motive, would decide to which it should be given.
• He will not assign to anybody the smallest motive for his conduct.
• The motive of a man lies at the bottom of the heart.
• It shows the motive which actuated those, against whom there is much evidence, but who, without the knowledge of this intention, were not seen to have had a motive.
• THE DIFFERENCE IN MOTIVES When we proceed from fact to motive, we find even greater possibilities of misunderstanding.
• On the whole, even with so well-defined a program, and with a full play of memory, we cannot be quite sure of a fixed association of the motive.
• Here was the motive, without which the case against John Buchanan Steel must have remained incomplete.
• Its every motive was to serve the greed of Flint and Waldron.
• The wise combination of the two, gives us that tangle of motive, act and circumstance which makes up human existence.
• What else could the motive be? The race of heroes is essential to art.
• He could not explain to Charles his motive in going to see Arthur, as, now that the first burst of indignation was over, he felt half ashamed of it himself.

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