Examples:
- a provocative remark
- a provocative smile
- provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance - Anthony Trollope
Antonyms:unprovocative
Derivationally Related Form:provoke
Inherited Hypernyms:provocative
Similar to:agitating agitative provoking challenging intriguing charged incendiary incitive inflammatory instigative rabble-rousing seditious rousing
See also:exciting