The Collaborative International Dictionary
motivating \motivating\ motivative \motivative\adj. causing motion or impelling to action; providing a motive[2]; as, motivating arguments.
Syn: motive(prenominal).
It may well be that ethical language has primarily
a motivative function
--Arthur Pap
Wiktionary
Effectively providing an incentive. v
(present participle of motivate English)
WordNet
adj. impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments" [syn: motivative(a), motive(a)]
n. the act of motivating; providing incentive [syn: motivation]
Usage examples of "motivating".
And in recognition of the continuity through all time of this motivating principle in the evolution of our species, the authors of this film of which I am speaking showed again symbolically that same mysterious panel standing in a hidden quarter of the moon, approached and touched there by space travelers.
Heinlein is the unquestioned master of this art of constructing societies as background and motivating forces for his plots.
As for realizing that love and sex are motivating forces of man, handling the theme with tenderness, not as a gimmick but as something beautiful, there's only Theodore Sturgeon and perhaps one or two more.
T'kul must have been the motivating force-T'ron had lost all his vigor and initiative after that duel with F'lar.
Carmila was the first to start motivating for a move, and no one was at all reluctant to return to the midway.
All he wanted to do was to get himself back to Earth and he started motivating in that direction.