Definitions for motives

motives mo·tive

Spelling: [moh-tiv]
IPA: /ˈmoʊ tɪv/

Motives is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in motives (eimostv).

Definitions for motives

noun

  1. something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
  2. the goal or object of a person's actions:
  3. (in art, literature, and music) a motif.

adjective

  1. causing, or tending to cause, motion.
  2. pertaining to motion.
  3. prompting to action.
  4. constituting a motive or motives.

verb (used with object)

  1. to motivate.

Origin of motives

1325-75; (adj.) Middle English (Middle French motif) Medieval Latin mōtīvus serving to move, equivalent to Latin mōt(us) (past participle of movēre to move) + -īvus <

Examples for motives

The occurrences are, to all appearance, motiveless as the events in a feverish dream.

There it was—an open hostility with more power behind it than Deklay's motiveless disapproval had carried.

She had moods of motiveless irritation, and of unreasonable indulgence.

I never loved but one woman, and her I outraged by a profligate's motiveless folly.

To its existence is often to be traced the motiveless crimes of the young.'

To me it seems basic to the getting rid of fear to know that our trials, of whatever nature, are not motiveless.

Here they swayed to and fro, hour after hour, motiveless, awaiting the progress of events.

Iago's soliloquy, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!

This duplicity was not motiveless, although, on a cursory view, its purpose may not be apparent.

Nor is it a caprice, that is, motiveless volition, or will as a motor.

Word Value for motives
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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