Provoked Synonyms and Antonyms

Incited, especially deliberately, to anger
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. exasperated
  2. irate
  3. incensed
  4. aggravated
  5. enraged
  6. irked
To behave so as to bring on (danger, for example)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tempted
  2. invited
  3. courted
Evoke or provoke to appear or occur
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stimulated
  2. evoked
  3. maddened
  4. produced
  5. infuriated
  6. incensed
  7. burnt
  8. angered
  9. made
Antonyms:
  1. allayed

Words Related to Provoked

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Provoked Sentence Examples

  • I shouldn't have provoked him.

  • Meantime the excesses of the French republicans had provoked reaction in England, and the Tory ministry adopted a policy of repression.

  • When the anti-clerical policy of the revolutionary powers provoked the rising of the peasantry, of La Vendee, he put himself at the head of the men of his neighbourhood, and came rapidly to the front among the gentlemen whom the peasants took for leaders.

  • In September 1876 the massacre of a large number of girls (who had married men of their own age instead of the men of an older regiment, for whom Cetywayo had designed them) provoked a strong remonstrance from the government of Natal, inclined as that government was to look leniently on the doings of the Zulu.

  • During the war of1899-1902there was some fighting between the Zulu and the Boers, provoked by the Boers entering Zulu territory.

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