Vocabulary
Impetus
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the force or energy with which a body moves.
Urdu meaning
قوت، بہاﺅ، رفتار کا زور
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The impetus for the debate may not be organic.
- First, the impetus for the creation of new states in India came from fierce and, and at times violent, movements particularly in the south, which demanded states on the basis of language.
- The fact that there was ownership at the PMO, where Ahluwalia was employed, helped in giving them impetus.
- Unfortunately, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has given great impetus to the T TP and other violent groups to take on the Pakistani state.
- What gave their movement for reform of Muslim personal law an added impetus was the second marriage of the then prime minister, Mohammad Ali Bogra in 1955 who, still legally married to his first wife, contracted a second marriage.
Synonyms
momentum, propulsion, impulsion, impelling force, motive force, driving force
Antonyms
counterincentive, disincentive
Curator example
“hit the booster coil before the flywheel loses all its impetus”
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