1. 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" 
2. Exciting sexual desire
   "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"

See also: agitating, agitative, challenging, charged, exciting, incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, intriguing, provocatively, provoke, provoking, rabble-rousing, rousing, seditious, sexy

Antonym: unprovocative

Encyclopedia: Provocative

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