Provocative vs Provoke - What's the difference?
provocative | provoke |
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 :
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
* Bible, Eph. vi. 4
to bring about a reaction.
* J. Burroughs
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(obsolete) To appeal.
Provoke is a derived term of provocative.
As an adjective provocative
is serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.As a noun provocative
is something that provokes an appetite, especially a sexual appetite; an aphrodisiac.As a verb provoke is
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.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 [...].
provoke
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Verb
(provok)- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
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- (Dryden)
