Definition for Motive:

• Causing motion; having power or tending to move.

Synonyms for Motive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • motor.

• n.

  •
  • attraction.
  •
  • ground,
  • point,
  • pretext,
  • excuse.
  •
  • device,
  • figure,
  • pattern,
  • design.
  •cause (noun)
  • compulsion,
  • mainspring,
  • force,
  • effectuation,
  • basis,
  • source,
  • grounds,
  • stimulus,
  • evocation,
  • factor,
  • elicitation,
  • origination,
  • cause,
  • generation,
  • determinant,
  • action,
  • drive,
  • motivator,
  • inspiration,
  • enforcement,
  • compunction,
  • execution,
  • root,
  • provocation.
  •desire (noun)
  • pruriency,
  • prurience.
  •incentive (noun)
  • consideration,
  • lure,
  • angle,
  • goal,
  • impulse,
  • object,
  • goad,
  • aim,
  • ground,
  • spur,
  • inducement,
  • purpose,
  • rationale,
  • incentive,
  • idea,
  • incitement.
  •melody (noun)
  • concord,
  • harmoniousness,
  • ditty,
  • concert,
  • tune,
  • melody,
  • song,
  • consonance,
  • tunefulness,
  • theme,
  • euphony.
  •motive (noun)
  • enticement,
  • induction,
  • impulsion,
  • fire,
  • motivating,
  • motif,
  • causative,
  • catalyst,
  • propulsion,
  • motor,
  • energy,
  • fomentation,
  • prompting,
  • motivative,
  • need,
  • magnetism,
  • facilitation,
  • urge,
  • stimulation,
  • fermentation,
  • trigger,
  • motivation,
  • goading.
  •reason (noun)
  • why.
  •reason, purpose (noun)
  • consideration,
  • impulse,
  • basis,
  • feeling,
  • motivation,
  • rationale,
  • grounds,
  • idea,
  • spring,
  • cause,
  • root,
  • spur,
  • incitement,
  • antecedent,
  • inspiration,
  • intent,
  • emotion,
  • design,
  • drive,
  • mainspring,
  • passion,
  • inducement,
  • influence,
  • incentive,
  • determinant,
  • thinking,
  • stimulus,
  • object,
  • intention,
  • occasion,
  • aim.
  •sake (noun)
  • final cause.
  •stimulant (noun)
  • pick-me-up.
  •topic (noun)
  • point in question.

• v.

  •cause (verb)
  • origin.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • justification,
  • kinetic,
  • pretext,
  • warrant,
  • desire.
  •
  • impulse,
  • invitation,
  • alibi.
  •
  • consideration,
  • excuse,
  • apology.
  •
  • story.
  •
  • pattern.
  •
  • sense,
  • device.
  •
  • point,
  • figure.
  •explanation
  • rationale.
  •purpose
  • sake,
  • angle.
  •spur
  • incentive.
  •Other relevant words:
  • case,
  • dapper,
  • text,
  • erratic,
  • induce,
  • capricious,
  • operative,
  • Motory,
  • turn,
  • ardently,
  • augment,
  • chance,
  • synchronous,
  • studiously,
  • stimulant,
  • mobility,
  • animating,
  • ax to grind,
  • entirely,
  • causal,
  • plan,
  • shifting,
  • frame of mind,
  • cover,
  • calling,
  • Contemplatively,
  • scheme,
  • Intendment,
  • motor,
  • firmly,
  • logical reasoning,
  • prospectus,
  • eloquent,
  • dynamic,
  • unremittingly,
  • driving,
  • question,
  • causality,
  • carefully,
  • propelling,
  • hortative,
  • occasion,
  • convincing,
  • subject of thought,
  • persuasive,
  • objective,
  • chapter,
  • completely,
  • guise,
  • zealously,
  • painstakingly,
  • purpose,
  • point,
  • designer,
  • hasty,
  • get-up-and-go,
  • will,
  • keynote,
  • assiduously,
  • laws of motion,
  • cogent,
  • changeableness,
  • persistently,
  • impel,
  • pro and con,
  • fascinating,
  • impulsive,
  • wish,
  • mercurial,
  • emerge,
  • sake,
  • forasmuch as,
  • reason,
  • moving,
  • pruriency,
  • inspire,
  • pressing,
  • ambition,
  • itch,
  • scruple,
  • excuse,
  • function,
  • intently,
  • footing,
  • forcible,
  • impelling,
  • desideratum,
  • instigate,
  • tirelessly,
  • movable,
  • unquiet,
  • idea,
  • principle,
  • subject,
  • consideration,
  • smart,
  • ultimatum,
  • intention,
  • plea,
  • affair,
  • intent,
  • motile,
  • passion,
  • leitmotiv,
  • eagerly,
  • pretense,
  • gist,
  • story,
  • mover,
  • Advocation,
  • Stimulator,
  • mobile,
  • influence,
  • device,
  • spinning head,
  • impulse,
  • dedicatedly,
  • focus of attention,
  • guiding star,
  • go,
  • hortatory,
  • active,
  • first stage,
  • actuating,
  • appearance,
  • lineage,
  • briskly,
  • matter,
  • aspiration,
  • score,
  • conscientiously,
  • jump,
  • penury,
  • beggary,
  • ethics,
  • goad,
  • spring,
  • causation,
  • decision,
  • invitation,
  • former,
  • explanation,
  • incitation,
  • simultaneous,
  • dynamical,
  • excitement,
  • pick-me-up,
  • lodestar,
  • emotion,
  • aim,
  • motivation,
  • fixedly,
  • traveling,
  • antecedent,
  • motivating,
  • incentive,
  • subterfuge,
  • inviting,
  • pattern,
  • rootstock,
  • impress,
  • ambulatory,
  • perseveringly,
  • actuate,
  • meat,
  • incite,
  • excite,
  • steadfastly,
  • move,
  • urging,
  • allegation,
  • industriously,
  • readily,
  • keenly,
  • by reason of,
  • busily,
  • motivational,
  • interest,
  • proposal,
  • argument,
  • pretension,
  • desire,
  • propulsive,
  • laboriously,
  • pauperism,
  • origin,
  • conclusive,
  • demand,
  • travelling,
  • design,
  • bound,
  • ground,
  • mental capacity,
  • compelling,
  • guiding light,
  • motivative,
  • ambulant,
  • anxiously,
  • gloss,
  • bear,
  • motivate,
  • reason why,
  • attentively,
  • diligently,
  • spur,
  • mind,
  • motif,
  • phrase,
  • attraction,
  • out of,
  • base,
  • view,
  • point in question,
  • changeable,
  • synchronic,
  • project,
  • originator,
  • transitional,
  • meticulously,
  • scrupulously,
  • causative,
  • why,
  • vindication,
  • claim,
  • account,
  • essence,
  • propellant,
  • lure,
  • morals,
  • for this reason,
  • pretext,
  • goal,
  • advisedly,
  • forceful,
  • carry,
  • substance,
  • impetus,
  • kinetic,
  • feeling,
  • motion,
  • problem,
  • sense,
  • alibi,
  • inducement,
  • Arriere Pensee,
  • apology,
  • striving,
  • initiation,
  • uneasily,
  • warrant,
  • color,
  • thinking,
  • motive power,
  • constraint,
  • nomadic,
  • affect,
  • Studiedly,
  • disturb,
  • determination,
  • sedulously,
  • Shoving,
  • directive,
  • pushing,
  • stirring,
  • stylish,
  • fixed purpose,
  • Primum Mobile,
  • pressure,
  • come,
  • incitement,
  • dashing,
  • aspect,
  • target,
  • earnestly,
  • Propulsory,
  • prod,
  • urgent,
  • grow,
  • instigation,
  • nisus,
  • aimlessness,
  • caprice,
  • resolve,
  • apprehensively,
  • morality,
  • point at issue,
  • Unweariedly,
  • thoroughly,
  • impellent,
  • activating,
  • root cause,
  • Desideration,
  • final cause,
  • attractive,
  • indigence,
  • counsel,
  • Pulsive,
  • movableness,
  • seed,
  • ideal,
  • main point,
  • in motion,
  • be unwilling,
  • thrusting,
  • inducive,
  • loyally,
  • angle,
  • burden,
  • develop,
  • expectation,
  • restlessness,
  • actively,
  • concern,
  • expand,
  • faithfully,
  • figure,
  • topic,
  • animus,
  • encouragement,
  • rationale,
  • resolution,
  • call,
  • prurience,
  • foundation,
  • rubric,
  • mobilization,
  • chic,
  • justification,
  • matter in hand,
  • deliberately,
  • Provenience,
  • restless,
  • need,
  • enlarge,
  • business,
  • head,
  • heading,
  • object,
  • cautiously,
  • vocation,
  • meaning,
  • study.

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.

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.