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motivated

  • adjective

Enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal.

Related words

  • hypermotivated
  • nonmotivated
  • overmotivated
  • supermotivated
  • undermotivated
  • unmotivated
  • motivated reasoning
  • self-motivated

Example sentences

  • “He stays motivated through challenges.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

  • “Her seemingly generous actions turned out to be motivated purely by profit.”

    Tatoeba · hecko · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “motivated” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.