Definition of provocative
Adjectives
serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy
"a provocative remark"
"a provocative smile"
"provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope
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exciting
creating or arousing excitement
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agitating, agitative, provoking
causing or tending to cause anger or resentment
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challenging, intriguing
disturbingly provocative
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charged
capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy
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incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious
arousing to action or rebellion
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rousing
rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading
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unprovocative
not provocative
- unprovoking
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unexciting
not exciting
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nonviolent
abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
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disarming
capable of allaying hostility
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noninflammatory
not inflammatory
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exciting sexual desire
"her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"
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sexy
marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest
Vocabulary Lists for provocative
J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" Chapters 15-26 »(69 words)
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