THOUGHT-PROVOKING Synonyms

• a person devoted to the contemplative life

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply

• having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination

• the central and most intense or profound part

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

• literary term for an ocean

• to a great depth; far down or in

• to an advanced time

• to a great distance

• marked by depth of thinking

• very distant in time or space

• intense or extreme

• having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range

• strong; intense

• relatively thick from top to bottom

• extending relatively far inward

• (of darkness) densely dark

• large in quantity or size

• with head or back bent low

• of an obscure nature

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy

• exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception

• disturbingly provocative

• capable of arousing interest or curiosity

• having a meaning or purpose

• intellectually or emotionally overwhelming

• serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy

• intentionally arousing sexual desire

• the act of arousing

• capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

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

• rousing or quickening activity or the senses

• that stimulates

• making lively and cheerful