PROVOCATIVE Synonyms

• requiring full use of your abilities or resources

• stimulating interest or thought

• disturbingly provocative

• driving or forcing

• tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument

• a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy

• the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

• disposed to venture or take risks

• radically new or original

• highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire

• creating or arousing excitement

• stimulating interest and discussion

• characterized or caused by inflammation

• arousing to action or rebellion

• disturbingly provocative

• capable of arousing interest or curiosity

• the act of arousing

• capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

• rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading

• tending to entice into a desired action or state

• rousing or quickening activity or the senses

• that stimulates

• making lively and cheerful

• 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

• tending to suggest or imply

• (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly

• tending to suggest something improper or indecent

• arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach

• very pleasantly inviting

• 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

• provoke or stir up

• serve as the inciting cause of