Word Meanings - MOTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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 (more info) 1. That which moves; a mover. Shak. 2. That
Additional info about word: MOTIVE
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 (more info) 1. That which moves; a mover. Shak. 2. That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object. By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites, or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctively. J. Edwards.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOTIVE)
- Account
- Narration
- report
- rehearsal
- story
- statement
- narrative
- recital
- relation
- description
- motive
- value
- importance
- advantage
- ground
- reason
- profit
- Cause
- Source
- origin
- producer
- agent
- creator
- purpose
- inducement
- account
- principle
- object
- suit
- action
- Consideration
- Importance
- suspect
- consequence
- compensation
- subsidy
- remuneration
- Incentive
- Inducement
- excitation
- rousing
- stimulus
- spur
- Object
- Appearance
- sight
- design
- end
- aim
- intent
- view
- goal
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MOTIVE)
- Disesteem
- misestimate
- mystify
- understate
- undervalue
- perplex
- darken
- Chance
- risk
- hazard
- revoke
- Miscalculate
- venture
- stake
- Silence
- hush
- suppress
- misreport
- misrepresent
- miarelate
- falsify
- Miscompute
- disesteem
- disregard
- vilipend
- underrate
- underestimate
- despise
- contemn
- cheapen
- vilify
Related words: (words related to MOTIVE)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - DARKEN
Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton. - CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - DESIGN
drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - REVOKER
One who revokes. - INTENTIONALITY
The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge. - OBJECTIVENESS
Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - MISCOMPUTE
To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne. - VENTURESOME
Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n. - TROUSSEAU
The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family. - CARNIVOROUS
Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. - BARBAROUS
slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous - LUSTROUS
Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv. - INDECOROUSNESS
The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum. - GYPSIFEROUS
Containing gypsum. - DISVENTURE
A disadventure. Shelton. - PURPURIPAROUS
Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - CIRROUS
Cirrose. - ANANTHEROUS
Destitute of anthers. Gray. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - POLYSPOROUS
Containing many spores. - MURIATIFEROUS
Producing muriatic substances or salt. - ONEROUS
Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor. Onerous cause , a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous. - TETTEROUS
Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.