Words and phrases that have a meaning related to motive: (180 results)
Often used in the same context:
motivations, justification, rationale, suspect, reason, alibis, purpose, culprit, accomplice, whereabout, intentions, specifics, vendetta, intension, assailant, culpability, perpetrator, explanation, murder, details, triggerman, retribution, cause, modus operandi, malice, premeditation, masterminds, homicide, victim, identities, particulars, whether, evidence, smokescreen, pretext, theories, arson, why, rubout, circumstantial evidence, vindictiveness, revenge, excuse, objective, motivator, subtext, quid pro quo, codefendant, conspirator, implicate, nationality, premeditate, clue, retaliation, grudge, investigators, connection, animus, truth, murderer, wrongdoing, reprisal, axion, modi operandi, detectives, intent, ulterior, criminal, sympathies, involvement, jealousy, what, causality, suspiciousness, instigator, nexus, remorse, possibility, criminality, ritualist, implication, corpus delicti, facts, probable cause, killers, allegation, devil worshiper, gunman, conspiracy, scruples, accelerants, polygraphy, filicide, suspicions, altruism, hypotheses, confession, witnesses, source, latent hostility, guilt, linkages, motives, motivation, aim, incentive, inducement, goal, desideratum, objection, qualification, safeguard, aims, complex, archetypal, causal, complicated, generative, coalitional, mediating, motivational, cohesive, dyadic, dynamic, ic, simple, triadic, unifying, appetitive, determinative, dominant, evolutive, hierarchial
More specific:
ethical motive, ethics, impulse, irrational motive, life, mental energy, morality, morals, obbligato, obligato, psychic energy, rational motive, urge
Appears in the definition of:
actual, cacoethes, compulsion, concealed, energising, energizing, field coil, field winding, ground, impulse, kinetic, kleptomania, kleptomaniac, life, mania, motivated, nuclear-powered ship, obsession, passion, rational motive, reason, standard cell, theme, urge
More general:
idea, melodic theme, musical theme, psychological feature
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Also try:causative, motif, motivating, motivative, motor, need
— Adjectives for motive: ulterior, real, only, primary, strong, powerful, main, chief, political, religious, economic, more...
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