(transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage. / (transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action

simple past tense and past participle of motivate

Enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of motivate

(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.

(transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move / Relating to motion and/or to its cause

plural of motive

Effectively providing an incentive.

present participle of motivate