Provocative Definition

prə-vŏkə-tĭv
adjective
Provoking or tending to provoke, as to action, thought, feeling, etc.; stimulating, erotic, irritating, etc.
Webster's New World
Tending to provoke or stimulate.
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noun
Something that provokes.
Webster's New World

(now historical) Something that provokes an appetite, especially a sexual appetite; an aphrodisiac. [from 15th c.]

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Other Word Forms of Provocative

Noun

Singular:
provocative
Plural:
provocatives

Origin of Provocative

  • From Middle French provocatif, and its source, Late Latin provocativus, from provocare.

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Provocative Sentence Examples

  • It looked cool and casual, but not provocative.

  • The provocative actions of the French Convention, especially their setting aside of the rights of the Dutch over the estuary of the Scheldt, had brought the two nations to the brink of war, when the execution of Louis XVI.

  • In the eyes of most men his martyrdom had put the king so much in the wrong that the obstinacy and provocative conduct which had brought it about passed out of memory.

  • C. Fremont, - whose doings in California in the next two years were to be the main assets in a life-long reputation and an unsuccessful presidential campaign, - while engaged in a government surveying expedition, aroused the apprehensions of the Californian authorities by suspicious and very possibly intentionally provocative movements, and there was a show of military force by both parties.

  • On the one hand it was blamed as provocative, on the other as weak.

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