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Unmotivated

Definition: Unmotivated

Unmotivated

Adjective

1. Without motivation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Antonym: motivated (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Unmotivated

DomainTitle

Books

  • At-Risk 'Parent and Family' School Involvement: Strategies for Low Income Families and African-American Families of Unmotivated and Underachieving s (reference)

  • Motivating Low-Achieving Students: A Special Focus on Unmotivated and Underachieving African American Students (reference)

  • Motivating the Unmotivated (reference)

  • Unmotivated Adolescents (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unmotivated

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Syria

Consequently, employees in the public sector (with whom dealings are extensive, even for private ventures) are often unmotivated and unproductive, or demand "fees" for routine services. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unmotivated

"Unmotivated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unmotivated" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1882,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unmotivated

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unmotivated

5

unmotivated student

3

unmotivated child

3

motivating student unmotivated

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unmotivated

Language Translations for "unmotivated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vrangfortolkning (mania of unmotivated relationship). (various references)

   

French

  

délire d'interprétation (mania of unmotivated relationship). (various references)

   

German

  

unmotiviert (motiveless). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ερμηνευτικόν παραλήρημα (mania of unmotivated relationship). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

indokolatlan (causeless, gratuitous, undue, unprovoked, wanton). (various references)

   

Italian

  

immotivato (motiveless, wanton). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otivatedunmay

   

Portuguese

  

delírio de interpretação (mania of unmotivated relationship). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nepodstaknut, nemotivisan. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

dereksiz (uninformative). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không có lý do (causeless, motiveless, ungrounded, unmotived). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unmotivated

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

desidiosus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Unmotivated

Misspellings

"Unmotivated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unmodulated. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unmotivated

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-m-n-o-t-t-u-v"

-2 letters: motivated.

-3 letters: amounted, antidote, dominate, donative, indevout, motivate, mutation, mutative, tetanoid, unmatted.

-4 letters: amidone, amniote, attuned, audient, automen, demount, deviant, manitou, mattoid, mediant, miaoued, minuted, motived, mounted, mutated, mutined, naevoid, notated, nutated, nutmeat, omitted, outdate, outvied, tainted, taunted, timeout, tinamou, tomenta, unaimed, unmated, unmoved, untamed, vaunted, vauntie, vomited.

-5 letters: advent, aidmen, amount, anomie, atoned.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-m-n-o-t-t-u-v"
 

+4 letters: undemonstrative.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unmotivated


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101101 01101111 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006D 006F 0074 0069 0076 0061 0074 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580798186758867867170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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