Provocative vs Vexatious - What's the difference?
provocative | vexatious | Synonyms |
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 :
Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
(archaic) Full of trouble or disquiet; harassed; distressed; annoyed; vexed.
* Sir K. Digby
(legal, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
Provocative is a synonym of vexatious.
As adjectives the difference between provocative and vexatious
is that provocative is serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating while vexatious is causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.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 [...].
vexatious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He leads a vexatious life.
- a vexatious lawsuit