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How to pronounce provocative:

Synonyms for provocative:

aggravating
agitating
agitative
annoying
challenging
charged
disturbing
edgy
exciting
explosive
galling
goading
incendiary
incensing
inciting
incitive
inflammatory
inspirational
inspiring
instigating
instigative
insulting
motivating
motivational
motivative
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Antonyms for provocative:

banal
bland
blunt
blunted
boring
brainless
bromidic
clean
cretinous
daft
dense
depressing
dim
dim-witted
dimwitted
discouraging
doltish
dry as dust
dull
dull-witted
dulled
fatuous
feeble
half-witted
ignorant
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