Antonyms for motive
ˈmoʊ tɪvmo·tive

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1. motiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   motif, motivate, motional, moving, motivation

2. motivenoun

   An incentive to act; a reason for doing something; anything that prompted a choice of action.

   Synonyms:
   moving, motivation, motif, motional, motivate

3. motivenoun

   Relating to motion and/or to its cause

   If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.

   Synonyms:
   motivation, motif, moving, motional

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1. motive

   The efficient cause, that which makes anything to be or be done, is the common meaning of the word, as in the saying "There is no effect without a cause." Every man instinctively recognizes himself acting through will as the cause of his own actions. The Creator is the Great First Cause of all things. A condition is something that necessarily precedes a result, but does not produce it. An antecedent simply precedes a result, with or without any agency in producing it; as, Monday is the invariable antecedent of Tuesday, but not the cause of it. The direct antonym of cause is effect, while that of antecedent is consequent. An occasion is some event which brings a cause into action at a particular moment; gravitation and heat are the causes of an avalanche; the steep incline of the mountain-side is a necessary condition, and the shout of the traveler may be the occasion of its fall. Causality is the doctrine or principle of causes, causation the action or working of causes. Compare DESIGN; REASON.

   Antonyms:
   consequence, creation, development, effect, end, end, event, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, product, result

   Synonyms:
   actor, agent, antecedent, author, causality, causation, cause, condition, creator, designer, former, fountain, occasion, origin, originator, power, precedent, reason, reason, source, spring

   Preposition:
   The cause of the disaster; cause for interference.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. motive

   Antonyms:
   execution, action, effort, deed, attempt, project, preventive, deterrent, dissuasive

   Synonyms:
   inducement, purpose, design, prompting, stimulus, reason, impulse, incitement

Matched Categories

1. • Theme

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1. motivation, motive, neednoun

   the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

   "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"

   Antonyms:
   noncausal, noncausative

   Synonyms:
   indigence, need, motivating, demand, pauperization, want, motivation, pauperism, motif, penury

2. motif, motivenoun

   a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music

   Antonyms:
   noncausal, noncausative

   Synonyms:
   motivation, motif, need, theme

3. motif, motiveadjective

   a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration

   Antonyms:
   noncausal, noncausative

   Synonyms:
   motivation, motif, need, theme

4. motive(a), motoradjective

   causing or able to cause motion

   "a motive force"; "motive power"; "motor energy"

   Antonyms:
   noncausative, noncausal

5. motivative(a), motive(a), motivatingadjective

   impelling to action

   "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments"

   Antonyms:
   noncausal, noncausative

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1. motivenoun

   Synonyms:
   incentive, inducement, incitement

How to use motive in a sentence?

1. Metropolitan Nashville Police:

   Travis Reinking's murdered four times with no apparent reason and no apparent motive. So we're very concerned.

2. Robert Menendez:

   I am outraged that prosecutors at the Justice Department were tricked into starting this investigation three years ago with false allegations by those who have a political motive to silence me.

3. Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley:

   We just can't figure out the motive, there's nothing that gives us any indication as to why he would do this or what would have triggered this. The victims did not know him, he did not know the victims.

4. Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte:

   I do not condone nor tolerate killing of journalists, regardless of the motive of the killers, or the reason for their killing, i never said that killing journalists is justified because they are involved in corruption.

5. Mandan Police Chief Jason Ziegler:

   At this time, the motive for the crime is unknown.

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