motives
Meaning of motives
plural noun
- a reason for doing something.
police were unable to establish a motive for his murder
- a motif in art, literature, or music.
late Middle English: from Old French motif (adjective used as a noun), from late Latin motivus, from movere ‘to move’.
Information about motives
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CatalanHyphenation of motives
mo-tives
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- motives is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
motives synonyms
Meaning a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event:
Meaning a reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way:
Meaning a set of reasons or a logical basis for a course of action or belief:
Meaning factors forming a basis for action or the justification for a belief:
Meaning reasonable grounds for doing, thinking, or feeling something:
Meaning the justification for or reasoning behind something:
Meaning reason; cause:
Meaning the process of considering or reasoning about something:
Meaning a material thing that can be seen and touched:
Meaning the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists:
Meaning a thing intended; an aim or plan:
Meaning a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is made:
Meaning a thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something:
Meaning a thing that persuades or leads someone to do something:
Meaning a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act:
Meaning the action of provoking unlawful behaviour or urging someone to behave unlawfully:
Meaning the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself:
Meaning something that tempts or is used to tempt a person or animal to do something:
Meaning the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative:
Meaning a thing that arouses activity or energy in someone or something; a spur or incentive:
Meaning encouragement of something to make it develop or become more active:
Meaning a thing that prompts or encourages someone; an incentive:
Meaning a thing that stimulates someone into action:
Meaning action or speech that makes someone angry, especially deliberately:
Meaning continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it:
Meaning the action or process of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something:
Meaning careful thought, typically over a period of time:
Meaning a decorative image or design, especially a repeated one forming a pattern:
Meaning the subject of a talk, piece of writing, exhibition, etc.; a topic:
Meaning the aim or purpose:
Meaning an abstract idea:
Meaning a person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with:
Meaning a matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation; a subject:
Meaning a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation:
Meaning a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression:
Meaning an essential or characteristic part of something abstract:
Anagrams of motives
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