motivate

motivate

English

Etymology

motive +‎ -ate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊtɪveɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊtɪveɪt/

Verb

motivate (third-person singular simple present motivates, present participle motivating, simple past and past participle motivated)

1. (transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
   • The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees.
2. (transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action
   • He was motivated purely by self-interest.
   • Steam-motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.

Antonyms

• demotivate

Related terms

• motivated
• motivator
• motive

Translations

to encourage

Arabic: حَثَّ‎ (ḥaṯṯa) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: please add this translation if you can Catalan: motivar (ca) Chinese: 激发 (jīfā) Czech: motivovat Dutch: motiveren (nl) Esperanto: motivi Finnish: motivoida (fi) French: motiver (fr) Georgian: შეგულიანება (šegulianeba) German: motivieren (de) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: motivál (hu) Italian: motivare (it) Japanese: 動機を与える (どうきをあたえる, dōki o ataeru)

Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: ...에 동기를 주다 (...-e donggireul juda) Maori: whakaohooho, whakahihiko Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norman: motiver Norwegian Bokmål: motivere Persian: برانگیختن‎ (fa) (barangīxtan) Polish: motywować (pl) Portuguese: motivar (pt) Romanian: motiva (ro) Russian: мотиви́ровать (ru) (motivírovatʹ) Serbo-Croatian: motivírati (sh) Spanish: motivar (es) Swedish: motivera (sv) Telugu: ప్రేరేపించు (te) (prērēpiñcu) Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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Italian

Adjective

motivate f pl

1. feminine plural of motivato

Verb

motivate

1. second-person plural present indicative of motivare
2. second-person plural imperative of motivare
3. feminine plural of motivato

Anagrams

• vomitate