Antonyms for motor
ˈmoʊ tərmo·tor

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. motornoun

   Synonyms:
   engine

2. motornoun

   describing neurons that create the ability to move

   Synonyms:
   engine

3. motornoun

   A motor car, or automobile.

   Synonyms:
   engine

4. motornoun

   a small internal combustion engine, especially a powerful one for the size (as in motorboat, motor car).

   Synonyms:
   engine

5. motornoun

   An electric motor.

   Synonyms:
   engine

Matched Categories

1. • Machine
   • Transport
   • Travel

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. motornoun

   machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion

   Antonyms:
   noncausative, afferent, noncausal

2. motoradjective

   a nonspecific agent that imparts motion

   "happiness is the aim of all men and the motor of all action"

   Antonyms:
   noncausal, noncausative, afferent

3. centrifugal, motor(a)adjective

   conveying information to the muscles from the CNS

   "motor nerves"

   Antonyms:
   afferent, noncausative, noncausal

4. motive(a), motorverb

   causing or able to cause motion

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

   Antonyms:
   afferent, noncausal, noncausative

5. drive, motorverb

   travel or be transported in a vehicle

   "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater"

   Antonyms:
   noncausative, afferent, noncausal

   Synonyms:
   push back, push, aim, force, tug, repel, drive, labour, repulse, get, ride, take, ram, beat back, force back, labor

How to use motor in a sentence?

1. Saeed Leylaz:

   Removing the sanctions is going to take a big obstacle out of the way for the Iranian economy but it doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a motor to push the economy on its own.

2. Vikas Gupta:

   I wanted to find the solution that will engage children aged 5-10, meet them at their cognitive and motor skills.

3. George Kravis:

   Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I was fascinated by mechanical and electrical gadgets—anything with a cord, a plug, a battery, a light, a motor.

4. Orville Wright:

   No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

5. Steven Frucht:

   When you look at the areas of the brain that are inappropriately activating, they're not just one region, this is actually a widely distributed motor network disorder. It's not like there's a lesion in a three-millimeter location, and we could just take care of that.

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