Synonyms for motif

Grammar : Noun

Spell : moh-teef

Phonetic Transcription : moʊˈtif

Définition of motif

Origin : "theme, predominant feature," 1848, from French motif "dominant idea, theme" (see motive).

noun central theme

Example sentences :

I thought that you of all people could work out that motif adequately.
Extract from : « The Spinner's Book of Fiction » by Various

The motif of the work is most beautifully and pathetically represented.
Extract from : « Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo » by W. Cope Devereux

It complimentarily introduces a hint or two of Wagner's Grail motif.
Extract from : « Contemporary American Composers » by Rupert Hughes

We have then to allow for the growth of a mythology with the twelve signs as its motif.
Extract from : « The Astronomy of the Bible » by E. Walter Maunder

Boudins characteristic was not of colour alone, but of motif as well.
Extract from : « Rambles in Normandy » by Francis Miltoun

He likened her to a motif that remained in his life as a melody that haunts the memory.
Extract from : « The Blower of Bubbles » by Arthur Beverley Baxter

Listen, there's the Venus motif crossing the Pilgrim's march.
Extract from : « Dodo, Volumes 1 and 2 » by Edward Frederic Benson

And again the motif of that hackneyed operetta is heard from his lips.
Extract from : « The Duel » by A. I. Kuprin

It was the kind of music that Wagner might have liked for a motif.
Extract from : « Intimate China » by Mrs. Archibald Little

The extension of the front at each side is formed of a motif and the point.
Extract from : « Needlework Economies » by Various

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