provocative adj

1 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 [ant: unprovocative]

2 exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"

English

Noun

1. Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a provocative of appetite.

Adjective

1. Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting.

Translations

• Arabic: مستفز (mostafez)
• Czech: provokativní
• French: provocat-eur, -rice
• German: provokant
• Ido: provoko(-ul,-in)o

A provocation is an act that causes a response.

Provocation and provoke can refer to:

• Provocation (legal), a type of legal defense in court which claims the "victim" provoked the accused's actions
• Agent provocateur, a (generally political) group that tries to goad a desired response from the group or otherwise disrupt its activity
• Provocation (medical), a way of medical testing for conditions such as an allergy by provoking the immune system's response
  • Provocation study, a form of medical research using the above method
• Provoke (album), a 1998 album by Altar and their final release on Displeased Records
• Provoked (film), a 2007 British film starring Aishwarya Rai and Naveen Andrews

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