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Word Meanings - MOTIVELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot.

Related words: (words related to MOTIVELESS)

  • INCITATIVE
    A provocative; an incitant; a stimulant. Jervas.
  • INCITO-MOTORY
    Incitomotor.
  • INCITINGLY
    So as to incite or stimulate.
  • INCITEMENT
    1. The act of inciting. 2. That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope. Syn. -- Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse;
  • INCITANT
    Inciting; stimulating.
  • DESTITUTENESS
    Destitution. Ash.
  • INCITE
    To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak. Syn. -- Excite; stimulate; instigate;
  • DESTITUTE
    1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
  • INCITER
    One who, or that which, incites.
  • MOTIVELESS
    Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot.
  • INCITATION
    1. The act of inciting or moving to action. 2. That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive. The noblest incitation to honest attempts. Tatler.
  • DESTITUTELY
    In destitution.
  • 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
  • INCITO-MOTOR
    Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.
  • MANUMOTIVE
    Movable by hand.
  • HELIOTROPE
    An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
  • PROMOTIVE
    Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.
  • HELIOTROPIC
    Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
  • APHELIOTROPIC
    Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.
  • EMOTIVENESS
    Susceptibility to emotion. G. Eliot.
  • ZINCITE
    Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.
  • HELIOTROPISM
    The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
  • HELIOTYPIC
    Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
  • HELIOTYPY
    A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
  • LOCOMOTIVENESS; LOCOMOTIVITY
    The power of changing place.

 

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