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Adjective motive has 2 senses
- motive, motor - causing or able to cause motion; "a motive force"; "motive power"; "motor energy"
Antonyms: noncausative, noncausal (indirect, via causative)
- motivative, motive, motivating - impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments"
Antonyms: noncausative, noncausal (indirect, via causative)
Noun motive has 2 senses
- motivation, motive, need - 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"
--1 is a kind of psychological feature
--1 has particulars:
- motif, motive - a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
--2 is a kind of theme, melodic theme, musical theme, idea
--2 has particulars: obbligato, obligato
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