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Animated vs Provocative - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between animated and provocative

is that animated is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous while provocative is serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.

As a verb animated

is past tense of animate.

As a noun provocative is

something that provokes an appetite, especially a sexual appetite; an aphrodisiac.

animated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (animate)

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    provocative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.
  • Serving or tending to excite, stimulate or arouse sexual interest.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
    • She used by way of Provocative , to read the wanton Verses of her (Paramour) in the day time [...].
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