Provoking Synonyms and Antonyms

prə-vōkĭng
Troubling the nerves or peace of mind, as by repeated vexations
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. annoying
  2. vexing
  3. bothersome
  4. galling
  5. irksome
  6. irritating
  7. agitative
  8. nettlesome
  9. plaguy
  10. tormenting
  11. troublesome
  12. vexatious
  13. agitating
To behave so as to bring on (danger, for example)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tempting
  2. inviting
  3. courting
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Words Related to Provoking

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Provoking Sentence Examples

  • Deidre didn't move, afraid of provoking him.

  • Deidre suspected the result of provoking either man was death to someone.

  • About this period he was charged with the defence of a member of the national guard of Brives, which was accused of provoking disorders in the department of La Correze.

  • To the situation defined by concordat, however, succeeds another situation, more or less uncertain and more or less strained, in which the two powers legislate separately on mixed matters, sometimes not without provoking conflicts.

  • In July of that year Samuel de Champlain discovered the lake which bears his name and on its shores led his Algonquian Indian allies against the Iroquois, thus provoking against his countrymen the hostility of a people who for years were to hold the balance of power between the English and the French in America.

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