| a. | 1. | Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting. |
| n. | 1. | Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; |
| Adj. | 1. | provocative - 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 Antonyms: unprovocative, unprovoking - not provocative |
| 2. | provocative - exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative" |
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