Word Meanings - MOTIVELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot.

Related words: (words related to MOTIVELESS)

• INCITATIVE
  A provocative; an incitant; a stimulant. Jervas.
• INCITO-MOTORY
  Incitomotor.
• INCITINGLY
  So as to incite or stimulate.
• INCITEMENT
  1. The act of inciting. 2. That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope. Syn. -- Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse;
• INCITANT
  Inciting; stimulating.
• DESTITUTENESS
  Destitution. Ash.
• INCITE
  To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak. Syn. -- Excite; stimulate; instigate;
• DESTITUTE
  1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
• INCITER
  One who, or that which, incites.
• MOTIVELESS
  Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot.
• INCITATION
  1. The act of inciting or moving to action. 2. That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive. The noblest incitation to honest attempts. Tatler.
• DESTITUTELY
  In destitution.
• MOTIVE
  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 (more info) 1. That which moves; a mover. Shak. 2. That
• INCITO-MOTOR
  Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.
• MANUMOTIVE
  Movable by hand.
• HELIOTROPE
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• PROMOTIVE
  Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.
• HELIOTROPIC
  Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
• APHELIOTROPIC
  Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.
• EMOTIVENESS
  Susceptibility to emotion. G. Eliot.
• ZINCITE
  Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.
• HELIOTROPISM
  The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
• HELIOTYPIC
  Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
• HELIOTYPY
  A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
• LOCOMOTIVENESS; LOCOMOTIVITY
  The power of changing place.