Antonyms for Incentive
ɪnˈsɛn tɪvin·cen·tive

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1. incentivenoun

   Antonyms:
   disincentive

2. incentivenoun

   I have no incentive to do housework right now.

   Antonyms:
   disincentive

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1. incentive

   Antonyms:
   discouragement, warning, dissuasive, prohibition, deterrent

   Synonyms:
   inducement, excitation, rousing, motive, stimulus, spur

Matched Categories

1. • Payment
   • Rational Motive

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incentive, inducement, motivatornoun

   a positive motivational influence

   Antonyms:
   deterrence, disincentive

   Synonyms:
   bonus, motivator, incentive, inducement, inducing

2. bonus, incentivenoun

   an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

   Antonyms:
   deterrence, disincentive

   Synonyms:
   incentive, motivator, fillip, bonus, inducement

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1. incentivenoun

   Synonyms:
   motive, spur, incitement, stimulus, inducement provocation

How to use Incentive in a sentence?

1. Casie Copeland:

   If the parties are told if you make this agreement, this report gets shelved forever, then this is an actual incentive, but ... it's all very wishy washy and no one is clear. The way it's been used so far has been rather clumsy.

2. Tom Robinson:

   It's about identifying who the perpetrators are, but also ensuring that it's very difficult for these criminals to cash out, it means there's less of an incentive to commit this kind of crime in the first place.

3. Mitesh Patel:

   Our study showed that the incentive is not what motivated people, at least in this design.

4. Daniel Pinkston:

   They have an incentive to exaggerate their capabilities -- particularly for their domestic audience -- to demonstrate awe and power, but we don't know the exact capabilities.

5. Daniel Hayward:

   A great incentive for communities to contribute to the sustainable management of forests is community forestry or land titles, which provide a degree of tenure security, there is no need for conservation needs and human rights to be kept separate.

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