GOADING Synonyms

• a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

• a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

• the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging

• insistent solicitation and entreaty

• the act of troubling or annoying someone

• causing irritation or annoyance

• harassment especially of a tethered animal

• requiring full use of your abilities or resources

• stimulating interest or thought

• disturbingly provocative

• hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver

• the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal

• having the power of driving or impelling

• acting with vigor

• causing irritation or annoyance

• (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite

• causing physical discomfort

• the act of motivating; providing incentive

• impelling to action

• the act of puncturing with a small point

• causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

• the act of applying force in order to move something away

• agitating a liquid with an implement

• arousing to a particular emotion or action

• capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

• exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions

• aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances

• playful vexation

• the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb

• playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)

• arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it

• causing irritation or annoyance

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• stop sleeping

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to become awake or conscious

• to begin moving

• to evoke sexual feelings

• give an incentive for action

• provoke or stir up

• urge on; cause to act

• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

• make turbid by stirring up the sediments of

• a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

• any sharply pointed projection

• tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers

• a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward

• a railway line connected to a trunk line

• incite or stimulate

• give heart or courage to

• strike with a spur

• goad with spurs

• equip with spurs

• the leaf of a conifer

• a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

• a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

• a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

• annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism

• prick with a needle