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Provocative synonyms

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alluring
Having the power to allure.
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  1. Having the power to allure.
  2. Tempting strongly; highly attractive; charming
intriguing
Exciting interest or curiosity; fascinating
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  1. Exciting interest or curiosity; fascinating
blue
Having the color of the clear sky or the deep sea
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  1. Having the color of the clear sky or the deep sea
  2. Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a blue square, indicating an intermediate level of difficulty.
  3. Indecent; risqué:
earthy
Unadorned and simple in style:
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  1. Unadorned and simple in style:
  2. Of, consisting of, or resembling earth:
  3. Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
off-color
Exhibiting bad taste:
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  1. Exhibiting bad taste:
  2. Not quite proper; now, esp., risqué
  3. Varying from the usual, standard, or required color
racy
Somewhat indecent; suggestive; risqué
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  1. Somewhat indecent; suggestive; risqué
  2. Strong and sharp in flavor or odor; piquant or pungent.
  3. Having the characteristic taste, flavor, or quality associated with the original or genuine type
salty
Coarse or earthy
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  1. Coarse or earthy
  2. Cross or caustic
  3. Smelling of or suggesting the sea
scabrous
Marked with or as with scabs; blotchy, encrusted, etc.
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  1. Marked with or as with scabs; blotchy, encrusted, etc.
  2. Indecent, shocking, improper, scandalous, etc.
  3. Having or covered with scales or small projections and rough to the touch:
spicy
Risqué; racy
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  1. Risqué; racy
  2. Piquant; zesty:
  3. Having the flavor or aroma of spice; fragrant, aromatic, or pungent
suggestive
That suggests or tends to suggest thoughts or ideas
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  1. That suggests or tends to suggest thoughts or ideas
  2. Tending to suggest something considered improper or indecent; risqué
  3. Conveying a hint or suggestion:
Find another word for provocative. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for provocative, like: alluring, arousing, intriguing, interesting, stimulating, blue, earthy, off-color, racy, risqué and salty.

Sentence Examples

  • On the one hand it was blamed as provocative, on the other as weak.

  • C. Fremont, - whose doings in California in the next two years were to be the main assets in a life-long reputation and an unsuccessful presidential campaign, - while engaged in a government surveying expedition, aroused the apprehensions of the Californian authorities by suspicious and very possibly intentionally provocative movements, and there was a show of military force by both parties.

  • In the eyes of most men his martyrdom had put the king so much in the wrong that the obstinacy and provocative conduct which had brought it about passed out of memory.

  • But though he thus sacrificed his own prospects to the cardinal's good pleasure, Dlugosz was far too sagacious to approve of the provocative attitude of Olesnicki, and frequently and fearlessly remonstrated with him on his conduct.

  • The provocative actions of the French Convention, especially their setting aside of the rights of the Dutch over the estuary of the Scheldt, had brought the two nations to the brink of war, when the execution of Louis XVI.

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