motivé

See also: motive and Motive

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ti.ve/

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Adjective

motivé (feminine motivée, masculine plural motivés, feminine plural motivées)

1. motivated, enthusiastic
2. justified, substantiated, well-founded

   Synonym: justifié

   Antonyms: immotivé, injustifié, arbitraire

   une demande dûment motivée ― a legitimately justified request

3. (semiotics) motivated, bearing a necessity between the signed and the signifier

   Antonym: arbitraire

   un signe motivé ― a motivated sign

Participle

motivé (feminine motivée, masculine plural motivés, feminine plural motivées)

1. past participle of motiver

Descendants

• → Turkish: motive

Further reading

• “motivé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Verb

motivé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of motivar