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General (31 matching dictionaries)

1. motive: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
2. motive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
3. motive: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
4. motive: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
5. motive: Free Dictionary [home, info]
6. Motive: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
7. motive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
8. motive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
9. motive: Rhymezone [home, info]
10. motive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
11. Motive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
12. The Motive (song), The Motive (film), Motive, Motive (law), Motive (disambiguation), Motive (algebraic geometry), Motive (TV series), Motive (Red Box album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
13. motive: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
14. motive: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
15. motive: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
16. motive, -motive: Dictionary.com [home, info]
17. motive: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
18. motive, -motive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
19. motive: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
20. motive, -motive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
21. motive: Wiktionary [home, info]
22. motive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
23. motive, Motive: Wordnik [home, info]
24. motive, motive: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
25. motive: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
26. motive: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
27. motive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
28. motive: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
29. motive: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]

Art (4 matching dictionaries)

30. -motive: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]
31. Motive: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
32. MOTIVE: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
33. motive: Essentials of Music [home, info]

Business (7 matching dictionaries)

34. motive: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]
35. motive: Legal dictionary [home, info]
36. MOTIVE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
37. motive: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
38. Motive: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
39. motive: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
40. motive: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

41. motive: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

42. motive: Medical dictionary [home, info]
43. motive: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

44. MOTIVE: Glossary of Ethical Terms [home, info]

Science (1 matching dictionary)

45. Motive: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

46. motive: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

(Note: See motiving for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (motive) ▸ noun:  the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior ("He acted with the best of motives") ▸ noun:  a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music ▸ Also see motiving ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to motive ▸ Usage examples for motive ▸ Popular adjectives describing motive ▸ Words that often appear near motive ▸ Rhymes of motive ▸ Invented words related to motive