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# motivated

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

«motivated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Motivated means keen and wanting to work hard to do something. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#m2)
3. Past form of «motivate»: gave someone a reason to act. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/#m4)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «motivated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motivated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«motivated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/motivated.html) on Mova free.