Provocative vs Irritative - What's the difference?
provocative | irritative |
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 :
serving to excite or irritate
accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation
As adjectives the difference between provocative and irritative
is that provocative is serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating while irritative is serving to excite or irritate.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 [...].
irritative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an irritative fever