Qualities
Synonyms for motive
The synonym for motive recorded in this bank is motor, in the sense "causing or able to cause motion". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for motive
- motoradjective, in the sense "causing or able to cause motion"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day motive is audited in a second meaning.
causing or able to cause motion
A motive force.
The true synonym
motor
Same sentence, swapped: A motor force.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- urgent
- subject
- pressing
Where motive turns up in the game
motive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where motive is the trap
- meaningadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pregnant, in the sense "rich in significance or implication", with motive sitting one tile away.
Play motive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so motive reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company motive keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
motive is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.