English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of motive

motive

/noun/ उद्देश्य; हेतु; प्रेरक; अभिप्रेरणा; कारण; प्रेरणा; प्रयोजन; इरादा; नीयत; मतलब;
/adjective/उत्तेजित करनेवाला; प्रेरणा देनेवाला; चलानेवाला; हरकत देनेवाला;
/verb/प्रेरित करना; उत्तेजित करना; प्रेरणा देना; वजह पेश करना; हेतु प्रस्तुत करना;

Synonym purpose; behalf; effector; Inducement; reason; inspiration; end; intention; meaning; irritant; moving; propel;

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English Dictionary:

1. Motive

[a.]

- Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

2. Motive

[n.]

- That which moves; a mover.
- That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
- The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.
- That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.

3. Motive

[v. t.]

- To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.