Motivate

Definition: Motivate

Motivate

Verb

1. Give an incentive; "This moved me to sacrifice my career".

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

Note: Motivate \Mo"ti*vate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle -vated; present participle verb or noun -vating.]. (Websters 1913)

MOTIVATE

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

Synonyms: Motivate

Crosswords: Motivate

Books

• 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself (reference)

• 1001 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Others (reference)

• My Potty Reward Stickers for Boys: 126 Boy Stickers and Chart to Motivate Toilet Training (reference)

• Weight Watchers Coach Approach: How to Motivate the 'Thin' You (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• How To Motivate Everyone (reference)

• Motivate Your Youth (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

Business

Even lower trade barriers motivate Mercosur industries to import and export finished products and/or components according to economic conveniences. (references)

Now local authorities have developed a relationship between the municipality's environmental fund and companies that use natural resources that should motivate enterprises to implement environmentally friendly technologies and to produce environmentally friendly products. (references)

Economic History

Italy

Direct advertising, through the distribution of gifts, samples, and price reduction coupons, is frequently used to motivate consumers. (references)

Korea

Major factors such as industrialization, rapid urbanization, environmental degradation and poor water quality motivate Asia to continue the development and utilization of GIS technology so that it can effectively respond to these growing pressures. (references)

Costa Rica

U.S. export pricing generally excludes the U.S. domestic marketing cost component, allowing a base price that is more competitive and providing more latitude for negotiating margins that motivate Costa Rican distributors, while maintaining attractive pricing in the market. (references)

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

Ending with "motivate": de-motivate.

Albanian

motivoj, shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), arsyetoj (descant, dissert, dissertate, expostulate, justify, ratiocinate, rationalize, reason, recognize, reflect, speculate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), ‏حرك (actuate, agitate, drive, induce, jostle, mobilize, stir, toss, turn, vex, whet), ‏جعل الدراسة ممتعة, ‏دفع (actuate, anticipate, bleed, boost, carry, crowd, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, flog, galvanize, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, nuzzle, pay, pay down, payment, plank, press, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, repulsion, roll, rouse, shove, spur, sweep, thrust, thrusting, waft, wheel). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обосновавам (base, ground), мотивирам (motive), подканвам (invite, urge), подбуждам (abet, actuate, excite, foment, galvanize, incite, instigate, prod, prompt, provoke, raise, urge on). (various references)

Chinese 

刺激 (fueled, fueling, Goaded, Goading, incentive, Jarred, jarring, motivating, motivation, stimulate, stimulated, stimulating, stimulation, Stimuli, stimulus). (various references)

Czech

motivovat, stimulovat (boost, fuel, innervate, invigorate, stimulate). (various references)

Farsi 

تهییج کردن (Incense, Stimulate, Whet), تحریک کردن (Actuate, Agitate, Annoy, Arouse, Bestir, Edge, Egg, Excite, Fuel, Ginger, Goad, Hypo, Incense, Incite, Instigate, Move, Pique, Prick, Prime, Provoke, Stimulate), دارای انگیزه شده . (various references)

French

motiver (motive), stimuler, pousser, inciter (motive, move). (various references)

German

motivieren (account for, give reasons, justify, to motivate). (various references)

Greek 

κινώ (bestir, budge, drive, move, propel, stir, wag), ωθώ (actuate, impel, prompt, push, shove, thrust), ενεργώ ωσ ελατήριο, θέτω στην κίνησιν. (various references)

Hebrew 

ליזום (initiate, instigate, institute, prompt, sponsor), ל�"שפיע (bias, carry weight, influence, predetermine, swing), ל�"� יע (activate, disturb, drive, impel, induce, prompt, propel, set in motion, stir, urge), ל�'רום (bring about, cause, give rise to, occasion, take effect), ל� מק (argue, explain, reason, substantiate). (various references)

Hungarian

motivál (to motivate), megindokol (to motivate, to reason, to show just cause for). (various references)

Indonesian

menyebabkan (cause, engender, induce), menggerakkan (actuate, budge, move), dorong (push). (various references)

Italian

motivare (cause, justify), stimolare (abet, actuate, animate, energise, Energize, goad, incite, invite, quicken, rouse, spur, stimulate, stir, stir up, tickle, whet), dare un motivo. (various references)

Korean 

동기를 주십시�". (various references)

Manx

greeasaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin

otivatemay

Portuguese

motivar (cause, induce, make, motive, occasion, operate, provoke, raise, start), fundamentar (found, ground, instantiate, justify, motive, substantiate), dar motivo a (motive), causar (activate, beget, cause, cause to take place, generate, give rise to, handsel, inchoate, induce, let, motive, occasion, operate, originate, provoke, put, rattle, start). (various references)

Romanian

motiva (base, ground, justify, motive), argumenta (argue). (various references)

Russian 

мотивировать (motive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

motivisati. (various references)

Spanish

motivar (cause, draw, give rise to, motive, result in, work). (various references)

Swedish

motivera (warrant). (various references)

Turkish

motive etmek, hareket ettirmek (budge, drive, stir, wag). (various references)

Ukrainian

спонукати (abet, actuate, cause, excite, impel, impulse, induce, motive, prick, prod, prompt, provoke, push on, rouse, set off, spur, urge), мотиувати. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "motivate": motivated, motivates. (additional references)

Words ending with "motivate": remotivate. (additional references)

Words containing "motivate": remotivated, remotivates, unmotivated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Motivate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Matiabe, Mattinata, m'odiate, modivate, motiva, motivater, Motuhake, Optivite, Rotavata, rotavate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: motive, vittae.

-3 letters: matte, mavie, motet, motte, movie, ovate, totem, vitae, vitta, vomit.

-4 letters: amie, atom, emit, iota, item, mate, matt, meat, meta, mite, mitt, moat, mote, mott, move, omit, tame, tate, team, teat, time, toea, toit, tome, tote, veto, vita, vote.

-5 letters: aim, ait, ami, ate, att, ave, avo, eat, eta, mae, mat.

+1 letter: motivated, motivates.

+2 letters: automotive, motivative, remotivate.

+3 letters: commutative, remotivated, remotivates, unmotivated.

+4 letters: nonimitative, overestimate, overmaturity, remotivating, remotivation.

+5 letters: contaminative, contemplative, demonstrative, nonautomotive, overestimated, overestimates, overstimulate, remonstrative, remotivations.

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