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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motivated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ The take-up has been disappointing in some respects, with the most highly motivated members attending several courses.
▪ They should also be able to teach highly motivated architecture students to improve the rigour and content of their work.
▪ Partnership incentive schemes are comparatively rare but can result in a highly motivated and dedicated work-force.
▪ A highly motivated individual, it is argued, will perform better than one with a low level of motivation.
▪ Through this process of the return to the mean or average, the superbly intelligent, highly motivated race remains an illusion.
politically
▪ However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
▪ Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
▪ Initial reports suggested that he had been poisoned, with the implication that it was a politically motivated killing.
▪ Audience variation presents particular problems for the politically motivated comedian.
▪ In what was widely regarded as a politically motivated action Kitangan was arrested in January 1991 and charged with corruption.
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▪ Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
▪ He did once enrol on a home study course but couldn't get motivated.
▪ Signs are constantly available to help motivated users who are actively searching for some form of information.
▪ Silence broken, suddenly everyone seems motivated to have a snack.
▪ They became motivated to do what the trainer wished through fear of repeated pain.
▪ Through this process of the return to the mean or average, the superbly intelligent, highly motivated race remains an illusion.
▪ We must be reactive rather than proactive, because becoming motivated and taking initiatives involves gaining power.
▪ Your supervisor's approach and enthusiasm are likely to vary according to how motivated and organised you are.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
motivated

motivated \motivated\ adj. Having a strong motive; -- of people. Opposite of unmotivated. [Narrower terms: driven, impelled]

Wiktionary
motivated
  1. enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal. v

  2. (en-past of: motivate)

WordNet
motivated

adj. provided with a motive or given incentive for action; "a highly motivated child can learn almost anything"; "a group of politically motivated men" [ant: unmotivated]

Usage examples of "motivated".

To achieve this psychological cyclisation and make it aesthetically convincing, the old ways of linking the stories had to be abandoned and a new method had to be found to make the whole composition of the cycle perfectly natural and motivated.

If they were trained and motivated, one simply did not care that they learned their skills as Angolan mercenaries, as Bosnia ethnic cleansers, or in one of those surprisingly good training facilities operated by gentlemen of the Muslim persuasion.

Such a move would be motivated less by fear of what a warhead might do to one of their proud battlecraft than what might happen to the asteroid mines and spaceborne factories they had established.

Cyrus Curbstone starts getting these brokered deposits, he becomes a motivated lender.

Practical functions motivated Thorwalian architects, but comfort and beauty were most important in Dakotan design.

But as a human being whose parameters of vision and understanding were being expanded by the expanding age in which he played a central role, he could appreciate the tangled drives, so unlike his own, which motivated these two young men.

The growth of the city, street by street, building by building, had been driven not by any conscious intent, not even by the will of the emperors, but by individual decisions, motivated by the greed or nobility, farsightedness or purblindness that afflicted every human being.

Enclave Police Chief Stephanie Brunell expressed both outrage and puzzlement at that attack, allegedly motivated by a search for Change syringes, by the terrorist group calling itself Livers For Control.

They had ample reason to employ effective security measures, but as with all monetarily motivated people they lacked the purity of purpose that his own colleagues exercised.

Greater Serbia with a suitable port, the attack on Dubrovnik was also motivated by the long-standing urge of the Hercegovinian and Montenegrin mountain dwellers to make this beautiful city Serbian.

Tsubouchi Shoyo and Futabatei Shimei were thus taking the pioneer steps in creating a new fiction on Western lines, other writers, motivated in part by the strongly conservative, nativistic trend of the 1880s, sought to revitalize Japanese literature by means of its own tradition.

Like the syllables of the Proustian name, the last word is multiply motivated.

The irregularities of wind and ram, just as much as the regularities of rivers, the sea and the earth, the stars, sun and moon, are explained animistically, as reflecting the minds or whims of local or global gods, themselves motivated by similar concerns to those that motivate humans.

We ran a drug recovery crashpad as a front, suborned teenyboppers into prostitution, coerced male patients into phone sales duty and kept them motivated with Benzedrine-laced espressoall of which peaked at twenty-four grand jury bills busted down to three indictments apiece.

We ran a drug recovery crashpad as a front, suborned teenyboppers into prostitution, coerced male patients into phone sales duty and kept them motivated with Benzedrine-laced espresso-all of which peaked at twenty-four grand jury bills busted down to three indictments apiece.