"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

motive sustantivo

sustantivo + motive

Kolokacji: 3

profit motive • revenge motive • base motive

motive + verbo

Kolokacji: 13

motive appears • motive seems • motive includes • motive varies • motive prompts • ...

verbo + motive

Kolokacji: 14

question one's motives • understand one's motives • explain one's motives • see motives • reveal one's motives • ...

adjetivo + motive

Kolokacji: 93

ulterior motive • political motive • possible motive • real motive • true motive • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 11

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 29

(1) ulterior, hidden, secret

Kolokacji: 3

(2) political, real, true, good, sexual, ...

Kolokacji: 11

1. political motive = motyw polityczny political motive

Political Motive

2. real motive = prawdziwy motyw real motive

3. true motive = prawdziwy motyw true motive

4. good motive = dobry motyw good motive

5. sexual motive = seksualny motyw sexual motive

Why is it that everybody these days insists on presuming a sexual motive for absolutely everything?
There may have also been a sexual motive.
Art historians have explored the painting's racial, sexual, and social motives in the context of American society at the time.
There was no evidence of any sexual motive.
Human behavior and psychological motivation being complicated, he said that a sexual motive could not be ruled out.
So she cancelled the arrest order and he was still suspected of molestation without sexual motives.
Badly decomposed, the dead child was completely naked - again suggesting a sexual motive.
It was generally applicable to the sexual motive of a male, not a female.
Her creation of the list helped the prosecution to sexualize her, and to focus on a sexual motive for the murder.

6. partisan motive = motyw zwolennika partisan motive

7. actual motive = rzeczywisty motyw actual motive

8. ideological motive = ideologiczny motyw ideological motive

9. additional motive = dodatkowy motyw additional motive

10. patriotic motive = patriotyczny motyw patriotic motive

11. honorable motive = honorowy motyw honorable motive

(3) possible, probable, potential, conceivable

Kolokacji: 4

(4) strong, powerful, compelling

Kolokacji: 3

(5) main, primary, principal, important

Kolokacji: 4

(6) personal, deep

Kolokacji: 2

(7) only, sole

Kolokacji: 2

(8) apparent, obvious, dominant

Kolokacji: 3

(9) different, similar, mixed

Kolokacji: 3

(10) selfish, altruistic, self-serving

Kolokacji: 3

(11) religious, clear, pure, complex

Kolokacji: 4

(12) sinister, improper, dark, bad, evil, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(13) economic, financial

Kolokacji: 2

(14) prime, original, American, best

Kolokacji: 4

(15) human, social, humanitarian

Kolokacji: 3

(16) high, noble, lofty

Kolokacji: 3

(17) racial, racist

Kolokacji: 2

(18) commercial, mercenary

Kolokacji: 2

(19) plausible, twisted

Kolokacji: 2

(20) psychological, rational

Kolokacji: 2

(21) exact, specific, precise, particular

Kolokacji: 4

(22) common, usual, single, individual

Kolokacji: 4

(23) unconscious, self-interested

Kolokacji: 2

(24) major, secondary, petty

Kolokacji: 3

(25) alleged, questionable, dubious

Kolokacji: 3

(26) known, unknown

Kolokacji: 2

(27) ultimate, immediate

Kolokacji: 2

(28) underlying, basic

Kolokacji: 2

(29) melodic, rhythmic

Kolokacji: 2

preposición + motive

Kolokacji: 13

of one's motives • about one's motives • on one's motives • with motives • for motives • ...

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