motive

motive is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which moves; a mover. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. That which moves; a mover.
2. noun. That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. adjective. Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
6. transitive verb. To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
7. noun. 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

   "we did not understand his motivation"

   "he acted with the best of motives"

   Synonyms: motivation, need

8. noun. a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration

   Synonyms: motif

9. noun. a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music

   Synonyms: motif

10. adjective. impelling to action- Arthur Pap

    "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"

    "motive pleas"

    Synonyms: motivating, motivative

11. adjective. causing or able to cause motion

    "a motive force"

    "motive power"

    Synonyms: motor

Synonyms

motivation, need, motif, motivating, motivative, motor

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in motive:

evomit

Common word forms

motived, motives, motiving, motiveless, motiveness

Words from these letters

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