motivative

/'moutiveitiv/
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motivative

A teacher gives a motivative speech to her students before the big game.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Serving as a motive or incentive; providing motivation: Describes something that prompts or encourages action or effort.
    • Impelling to action: Characterizing a force, reason, or argument that stimulates someone to do something.
Usage Examples
  • Adjective:
    • The manager gave a highly motivative speech to inspire the team before the project.
    • Financial rewards are often motivative factors for increased productivity.
    • Her motivative words encouraged him to pursue his studies with greater dedication.
Advanced Usage
  • Primarily a motivative function: Used to describe the principal role of something as being to drive action.
    • The speech's power lay in its motivative function, moving the audience to volunteer.
  • Motivative arguments: Arguments specifically designed to persuade by appealing to someone's motives or desires to act.
    • The lawyer presented motivative arguments to the jury, appealing to their sense of justice.
Variants and Related Words
  • Motivate (verb): To provide someone with a motive or incentive to act.
    • A good leader knows how to motivate their team.
  • Motivation (noun): The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
    • Her motivation for working hard was to provide for her family.
  • Motivational (adjective): Relating to or designed to provide motivation, often used in similar contexts to "motivative."
    • He listened to a motivational podcast every morning.
Synonyms
  • Motivating: Serving to motivate.
  • Incentive: Something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action.
  • Stimulating: Encouraging or arousing interest or enthusiasm.
  • Impelling: Driving or urging forward.
Notes on Usage
  • Formality: "Motivative" is a less common and more formal adjective than "motivating" or "motivational." It is often found in academic, psychological, or philosophical contexts.
  • Interchangeability: It can frequently be replaced by "motivating" without a significant change in meaning, though "motivative" may carry a slightly more analytical or causative nuance.
motivative

A teacher gives a motivative speech to her students before the big game.

Adjective
  1. impelling to action
    • it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function- Arthur Pap
    • motive pleas
    • motivating arguments

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