[
  {
    "word": "motive",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8m\u0259\u028at\u026av/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8m\u0259\u028at\u026av/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8mo\u028at\u026av/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/motive-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2049250",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.",
            "synonyms": [
              "motivation"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A limb or other bodily organ that can move.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A motif.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "motif",
          "motivation"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.",
            "synonyms": [
              "motivate"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "motivate"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move",
            "synonyms": [
              "moving"
            ],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "a motive argument"
          },
          {
            "definition": "Relating to motion and/or to its cause",
            "synonyms": [
              "motional"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "motional",
          "moving"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/motive"
    ]
  }
]