Words and phrases that have a meaning related to provocative: (159 results)
Antonyms:
unprovocative, unprovoking
Often used in the same context:
irreverent, risque, transgressive, incendiary, vulgar, indecorous, politically incorrect, humorous, condemnatory, outrageous, raunchy, racy, edgy, subversive, disturbing, undiplomatic, outlandish, titillating, polemical, daring, satirical, performative, confrontational, essayistic, witty, revelatory, suggestive, forceful, humoristic, reprehensible, flippant, tactless, scandalous, bold, immodest, distasteful, bellicose, nuanced, amusing, ungentlemanly, tendentious, insulting, sensuous, controversial, divisive, disrespectful, unsubtle, emotive, evocative, insightful, unscholarly, iconoclastic, unladylike, playful, formalist, ribald, hilarious, cheeky, imaginative, ambiguous, calumnious, unsettling, humourous, sexy, outre, strident, sexist, disquieting, exhortatory, repulsive, irresponsible, provoking, praiseful, hurtful, demeaning, sensationalistic, lighthearted, sensual, seditious, funny, seductive, poetic, discomforting, misogynous, indiscreet, instigative, trenchant, nonobjective, offbeat, poignant, revisionist, whimsical, pretentious, avant garde, blasphemous, contemporary, captivating, puerile, immoral, absurd, intemperate, humerous, irritant, antidote, incitement, preventive, sending, source, stimulant, stimulus, accusation, affirmations, aftereffect, blame, breakage, challenge, con, contributor, corrective, doctrinal, excitant, happening, incisive, enlightening, illuminating, cogent, forthright, intriguing, equivocal, evasive, instructive, prescient, similiar
Appears in the definition of:
challenging, coy, coyness, demure, demureness, fandango, intriguing, overmodest, piquant, provocatively, provokingly, salty, tart up, unprovocative, unprovoking
Synonyms:
Also try:agitating, agitative, charged, exciting, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, rousing, stimulating
— Nouns for provocative: questions, tests, test, book, behavior, question, testing, study, way, actions, manner, more...
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