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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   A limb or other bodily organ that can move.

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.

   “No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.”

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   A motif.

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.

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

7. Meaning 7 · verb

   To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

8. Meaning 8 · adjective

   Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move

   “a motive argument”

9. Meaning 9 · adjective

   Relating to motion and/or to its cause

How this word is used

• General “No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.”
• General “If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.”
• Everyday “a motive argument”

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