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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#m1)

2) Motivated also means caused or made to happen by a reason, as in «a racially motivated attack». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#m2)

3) Past form of «motivate»: gave someone a reason to act. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#m3)

4) A story or action that is well motivated has a clear, believable reason behind why things happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#x1)
- The coach motivated the team at half-time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#x2)
- I feel motivated after the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#x3)
- His kindness was motivated by love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#x4)
- The crime was motivated by money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#x5)
- Motivated pupils often ask lots of questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#x6)
- But the tale as is told is clearly not sufficiently motivated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «motivated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.