Defenition of the word provocative

• Defenition of the word provocative

  • stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a provocative novel"
  • serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope
  • exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"
  • 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
  • serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy
  • exciting sexual desire

Synonyms for the word provocative

• • exciting

Similar words in the provocative

• • agitating
  • agitative
  • challenging
  • charged
  • exciting
  • incendiary
  • incitive
  • inflammatory
  • instigative
  • intriguing
  • provoking
  • rabble-rousing
  • rousing
  • seditious
  • sexy
  • stimulating

Antonyms for the word provocative

• • unprovocative
  • unprovoking

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