Definition for Motive:

• Causing motion; having power or tending to move.

Synonyms for Motive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • motor,
  • motive.

• n.

  •
  • capillary action,
  • centrifugal force,
  • air resistance,
  • balance,
  • centripetal force,
  • attraction,
  • calorific,
  • bonding,
  • absorbance,
  • amplitude.
  •
  • start,
  • in justification of something,
  • excuse.
  •
  • part,
  • device.
  •ax to grind (noun)
  • ax-grind,
  • driving forces,
  • score settle,
  • ax grind.
  •causative (noun)
  • causative.
  •cause (noun)
  • compulsion,
  • determinant,
  • execution,
  • evocation,
  • compunction,
  • factor,
  • enforcement,
  • effectuation,
  • action,
  • elicitation,
  • source,
  • provocation,
  • force,
  • generation,
  • mainspring,
  • motivator,
  • basis,
  • origination.
  •constraint (noun)
  • impellings,
  • no no's,
  • nono's,
  • a musts,
  • nono,
  • no nos,
  • nonos,
  • no no,
  • drivings.
  •design (noun)
  • de signs,
  • de-sign,
  • de-signs,
  • de sign.
  •desire (noun)
  • salacity,
  • pruriency,
  • doting,
  • prurience,
  • salacities,
  • Propensities,
  • libidinousness,
  • lustfulness.
  •drive (noun)
  • impellents,
  • what it take,
  • what take,
  • what takes,
  • fire belly.
  •excitement (noun)
  • melodrama,
  • melodramas,
  • TODO,
  • excitation,
  • wildness,
  • to do.
  •expectation (noun)
  • prediction,
  • looking forward,
  • likelihood.
  •explanation (noun)
  • dis plays,
  • in formations,
  • ex-plication,
  • ex planation,
  • de-tails,
  • re-solutions,
  • ex-position,
  • ex plications,
  • ex-ample,
  • ex-planations,
  • ex planations,
  • in-formations,
  • dis play,
  • ex-plications,
  • dis-plays,
  • de tails,
  • ex ample,
  • in-formation,
  • ex-positions,
  • ex plication,
  • dis-play,
  • ex-planation,
  • re-solution,
  • re solutions.
  •figure (noun)
  • re presentations,
  • re-presentations,
  • re presentation.
  •get-up-and-go (noun)
  • Vitali,
  • get up and go,
  • Vitalis.
  •grounds (noun)
  • infra-structures,
  • under pinning,
  • chapter verse,
  • pre texts,
  • infra structure,
  • pre-texts,
  • infra structures,
  • straight stuffs,
  • sub-stratums,
  • under-pinning,
  • sub-strata,
  • whyfors,
  • sub stratums,
  • infos,
  • sub strata,
  • pre text,
  • pre-text,
  • sub-stratum,
  • sub stratum.
  •impulse (noun)
  • excitant,
  • excitants,
  • actuation.
  •incentive (noun)
  • inducement,
  • lure,
  • what makes one tick,
  • goal,
  • purpose,
  • goad,
  • incitement,
  • idea,
  • study at cause,
  • angle.
  •inspiration (noun)
  • in flatus,
  • afflatuses,
  • in-sights,
  • in sights,
  • re-velations,
  • deep thinks,
  • re-velation,
  • in-flatus,
  • re velation,
  • in-sight,
  • inflatu,
  • re velations.
  •invitation (noun)
  • in vite,
  • re-quests,
  • beggings,
  • pro-positions,
  • pro positions,
  • re quests,
  • pro position.
  •keynote/keystone (noun)
  • sub stance,
  • sub stances,
  • sub-stance,
  • sub-stances,
  • basic ideas.
  •melody (noun)
  • harmoniousness,
  • melody,
  • tunefulness,
  • consonance,
  • song,
  • concord,
  • euphony,
  • ditty,
  • tune,
  • concert.
  •motif (noun)
  • motif.
  •motivating (noun)
  • motivating.
  •motivation (noun)
  • Geese,
  • motivations,
  • gooses,
  • predetermination.
  •motivative (noun)
  • motivative.
  •motive (noun)
  • enticement,
  • magnetism,
  • fomentation,
  • need,
  • catalyst,
  • induction,
  • propulsion,
  • trigger,
  • goading,
  • fermentation,
  • energy,
  • fire,
  • stimulation,
  • facilitation,
  • prompting.
  •object (noun)
  • end view,
  • in tent,
  • in tents,
  • end purposes.
  •origin (noun)
  • horse's mouths,
  • horse mouth,
  • pro genitors,
  • horses mouth,
  • well springs,
  • horse mouths,
  • well spring,
  • horses mouths,
  • pro-genitor,
  • pro genitor,
  • well-springs,
  • pro-genitors.
  •pattern (noun)
  • patternings.
  •pick-me-up (noun)
  • Reviver,
  • energizers,
  • shot in the arm,
  • energizer,
  • restoratives,
  • uppers,
  • spark pulg,
  • revivers,
  • tonic.
  •point (noun)
  • name game,
  • nittygritty,
  • nuts bolts,
  • main ideas,
  • name the game,
  • validnesses.
  •rationale (noun)
  • hypo-thesis,
  • big ideas,
  • whole ideas,
  • song dance,
  • raison detre,
  • hypo thesis,
  • why wherefores,
  • the big ideas,
  • why and wherefores,
  • whatfors,
  • the whole ideas,
  • why wherefore.
  •reason (noun)
  • why.
  •root (noun)
  • starting points,
  • radicles.
  •sake (noun)
  • final cause.
  •spring (noun)
  • whences.
  •spur (noun)
  • turnon,
  • turnons,
  • turn ons.
  •stimulant (noun)
  • pick-me-up.
  •stimulus (noun)
  • eyeopeners,
  • piquings,
  • eyeopener.
  •subject (noun)
  • matter hand,
  • principal objects,
  • field reference.
  •text (noun)
  • ex-tract,
  • ex-tracts,
  • main bodies,
  • motifies,
  • ex tract.
  •theme (noun)
  • point issue.
  •topic (noun)
  • point in question.
  •urge (noun)
  • drutherses.
  •why (noun)
  • hows.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • vested interest,
  • pretext,
  • justification,
  • mitigation,
  • ulterior motive,
  • warrant,
  • open invitation,
  • kinetic.
  •
  • cop out,
  • physical,
  • alibi.
  •
  • consideration,
  • apology.
  •
  • story,
  • get out.
  •
  • sense.
  •
  • out.

Paraphrases for Motive:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    incentive, motivator.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    routes, PATHWAYS, MSS, Paths.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    justification, impetus, objective, intent, driving, argument, basis, pretext, matter, drive, stimulus, propulsion, excuse, engine, factor, motor.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    motivation, intention, reasoning, cause, explanation, momentum.

Antonyms for Motive:

• n.

  • reason, purpose
    discouragement, hindrance, neglect, thoughtlessness, deterrent.
  • Other antonyms:
    event, fruit, outcome, noncausal, creation, interjection, development, issue, noncausative, digression, outgrowth, end, aside, excursion, effect, consequence, product, result, tangent, parenthesis.

Motive Sentence Examples:

• Doesn't it occur to you, she asked in a moment, that if Mona is, as you say, drawing away, she may have, in doing so, a very high motive?

• Get the motive of life right.

Homophones for Motive:

• mat up, mud pie, motif, meditative, man and wife, matt-up, mouth bow, matte up, Minamata Bay, monotype, mid-off, muddy up, manitoba, mount up, meadow pea, made-up, meat pie, mud puppy, mouth off, midwife, mdiv, modify, mudhif, mutative.