- motivative, motive, motivating - impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments"
Antonyms: noncausative, noncausal (indirect, via causative)
- motivation, motivating - the act of motivating; providing incentive
--1 is a kind of act, human action, human activity
- motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite - give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career"
--1 is one way to cause, do, make
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun motivation2, noun motivation3, noun motivation1, noun motive1, noun motivator1
They motivate him to write the letter