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Challenging vs Provocative - What's the difference?

challenging | provocative |

As adjectives the difference between challenging and provocative

is that challenging is difficult, hard to do while provocative is serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.

As nouns the difference between challenging and provocative

is that challenging is the act of making a challenge while provocative is something that provokes an appetite, especially a sexual appetite; an aphrodisiac.

As a verb challenging

is present participle of lang=en.

challenging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult, hard to do.

    • Antonyms

    * unchallenging

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a challenge.
  • * Estcourt Rowland Metzner, The conflict of tax laws (page 151)
    • There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.

    See also

    * challenge

    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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