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Synonyms for Motives:
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n.
• causes- Bases ,
- Drives ,
- Stimuli ,
- actions ,
- causes ,
- compulsions ,
- evocations ,
- executions ,
- factors ,
- forces ,
- grounds ,
- inspirations ,
- mainsprings ,
- motivators ,
- roots ,
- sources .
Other relevant words:
- Goals ,
- Ideas ,
- Incentives ,
- Intentions ,
- LIFES ,
- Moralities ,
- Ungenerously ,
- accounts ,
- actuates ,
- agitates ,
- aims ,
- arguments ,
- compositions ,
- considerations ,
- demands ,
- designs ,
- driving force ,
- encouragement ,
- ends ,
- energy ,
- enthusiasm ,
- enticement ,
- excitement ,
- excitements ,
- excuse ,
- explanation ,
- figures ,
- fillip ,
- force ,
- impels ,
- impetus ,
- impulse ,
- impulses ,
- incentive ,
- incitation ,
- incitement ,
- incitements ,
- incites ,
- inducements ,
- intention ,
- intents ,
- interests ,
- matters ,
- motifs ,
- motivates ,
- motivation ,
- motivations ,
- motive ,
- motors ,
- needs ,
- objects ,
- occasions ,
- opposes ,
- origins ,
- papers ,
- patterns ,
- prospers ,
- purposes ,
- radicals ,
- rationales ,
- reasons ,
- reports ,
- sakes ,
- spurs ,
- stems ,
- subjects ,
- wants ,
- whys .
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Equivalence
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Noun, plural
motivations, motifs.
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Noun, plural
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Forward Entailment
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, plural
Incentives, inducements, impulses.
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Noun, plural
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Independent
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Noun, plural
aim, basics, bones, calculation, circumstances, colours, dynamics, fins, fundamentals, goal, intent, mobile, objective, politics, purpose, respects, roots, target, terms, things, ways, why, Areas, Bases, Exigencies, Ones, Rallies, Conspiracies, Criteria, Stimuli, Attitudes, Beliefs, Charges, Drives, Forms, Foundations, Goals, Standards, fines, motivates, counts, excuses, ends, plans, plots, schemes, calculations, considerations, determinations, thoughts, recitals, statements, deposits, accusations, allegations, cases, indictments, justifications, objections, causes, factors, sources, aims, attempts, purposes, concerns, interests, initiatives, designs, types, issues, reviews, facts, fronts, rationales, events, agendas, ambitions, headings, objectives, targets, points, signs, images, arguments, proofs, reflections, engines, uses, norms, matters, themes, offences, underpinnings, constraints, origins, convictions, faiths, tenets, persuasions, characteristics, pillars, imperatives, intents, merits, essentials, fundaments, Sentiments, raisons, cornerstones, mobiles, trailers, phones, cellphones, instigations, drivers.
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Noun, plural
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Other Related
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Noun, plural
grounds, Intentions, explanations, subjects.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
subjects.
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Noun, plural
What are the hypernyms for Motives?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
Goals, Incentives, inspirations, causes, influences, reasons, objectives, impulses.
Usage examples for Motives
The real motives for the demand are very plain.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
Mrs. Kaye had had two motives in doing what she had done.
"Jane Oglander"
Do they make one feel their own point of view and their own motives for conduct?
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Famous quotes with Motives
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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
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The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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