motivated

«motivated» in Mova's school dictionary: keen and wanting to work hard to do something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (motivated, more motivated); verb, past form of «motivate» (motivated)

meaning for a pupil

1) Motivated means keen and wanting to work hard to do something. tree →

2) Motivated also means caused or made to happen by a reason, as in «a racially motivated attack». tree →

3) Past form of «motivate»: gave someone a reason to act. tree →

4) A story or action that is well motivated has a clear, believable reason behind why things happen. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school reports and sport: a motivated pupil works hard. In news: what something was motivated by tells the reader why it happened.

examples

• She is very motivated to learn the piano. tree →
• The coach motivated the team at half-time. tree →
• I feel motivated after the holidays. tree →
• His kindness was motivated by love. tree →
• The crime was motivated by money. tree →
• Motivated pupils often ask lots of questions. tree →
• But the tale as is told is clearly not sufficiently motivated. tree →

note

Noun: motivation. Opposite: unmotivated. It is often followed by «to» + verb («motivated to win») or «by» + reason.

In the corpora

• Calling clear evidence "fake" just to avoid being wrong is called motivated reasoning.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «motivated» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.