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