Provocative vs Antagonistic - What's the difference?
provocative | antagonistic |
Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.
Serving or tending to excite, stimulate or arouse sexual interest.
* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
Contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.
* Milman
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As adjectives the difference between provocative and antagonistic
is that provocative is serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating while antagonistic is contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.As a noun provocative
is .provocative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- She used by way of Provocative , to read the wanton Verses of her (Paramour) in the day time [...].
antagonistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic .