unmotivedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈməʊtɪvd/, U.S. /ˌənˈmoʊdɪvd/ Lacking a motive; = unmotivated adj. 1.
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1792 Let. Catholics Eng. iii. 14 The unmotived suggestion of Apostolical Vicars.
1794 S. T. Coleridge Let. 6 Feb. (1895) 59 Your gossip with the commanding officer seems so totally useless and unmotived.
1801 Monthly Mag. Jan. 505/1 The sentiments of the personages..[are] often superfluous and unmotived.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Oct. 5/1 Looking back, we begin to understand actions which seemed dreamily unmotived.
1922 W. E. Bundy Psychic Health Jesus iii. 60 This fear is unmotived and groundless.
1997 Mind 106 462 It is not an automatic consequence of the Humean strategy that unmotived desires must be immune to revision.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1792- zoophyticcer
- zoophyticcest
- zoophyticer
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- zoophytish
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- zoophytography
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- zoophytology
- zoophyton
- zooplankter
- zooplankters
- zooplanktivore
- zooplanktivorous
- zooplankton
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- zooplanktons
- zooplastic
- zoopraxinoscope
- zoopraxiscope
- zoopraxography
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