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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to motive:   (182 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, theme

Synonyms:
causative, motif, motivating, motivation, motivative, motor, need

Also try:
— Adjectives for motive: ulterior, real, only, primary, strong, powerful, main, chief, political, religious, economic, more...

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