Motivate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To provide with an incentive; move to action; impel.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
  • v. To animate; to propel; to cause to take action
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To provide with a motive; to move; impel; induce; incite.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To motive; act as a motive or as the inciting cause of; induce.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. give an incentive for action
    • Antonym
    demotivate   
    Verb Form
    motivated    motivates    motivating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cause    do    make   
    Form
    vated    vating   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    move    prompt    incite    induce impel    drive    impel    induce   
     
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