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| Main Entry: | provoking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vexing |
| Synonyms: | annoying, distressing, disturbing, vexatious, agitative, tormenting |
| Main Entry: | provoke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make angry |
| Synonyms: | abet, abrade, affront, aggravate, anger, annoy, bother, bug*, chafe, enrage, exasperate, exercise, foment, fret, gall*, get on one's nerves, get under one's skin, get*, grate, hit where one lives, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, insult, irk, irritate, madden, make blood boil, make waves, nag, offend, perturb, pique, put out, raise, rile, roil, ruffle, set on, set*, try one's patience, upset, vex, whip up*, work into lather, work up* |
| Notes: | provoke means to stir up or arouse - or to incite to anger or resentment; evoke means to call forth or call to mind emotions, feelings, and responses |
| Antonyms: | delight, make happy, please |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | provoke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start, evoke; stimulate |
| Synonyms: | animate, arouse, awaken, begin, bestir, bring about, bring down, bring on, bring to one's feet, build up, call forth, cause, challenge, draw forth, electrify, elicit, enthuse, excite, fire, fire up, galvanize, generate, give rise to, incite, induce, inflame, innervate, innerve, inspire, instigate, kindle, lead to, make, motivate, move, occasion, pique, precipitate, prime, produce, promote, prompt, quicken, rally, rouse, roust, stir, suscitate, thrill, titillate, titivate, waken, whet |
| Antonyms: | end, halt, prevent, stop |
| Main Entry: | engrossing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very interesting |
| Synonyms: | absorbing, compelling, consuming, controlling, exciting, fascinating, intriguing, provoking, riveting, stimulating, all-consuming, captivating, enthralling, gripping, monopolizing, obsessing, preoccupying |
| Antonyms: | boring, repellent, repulsive, uninteresting |
| Main Entry: | galling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upsetting |
| Synonyms: | acid, annoying, bitter, bothersome, distasteful, grievous, humiliating, irksome, irritating, nettlesome, painful, provoking, rankling, unpalatable, vexatious, afflictive, aggravating, exasperating, harassing, plaguing, vexing |
| Antonyms: | cheering, comforting, pleasing, satisfying, soothing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | harassment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badgering |
| Synonyms: | aggravation, annoyance, bother, disturbance, exasperation, hassle, irritation, nuisance, persecution, perturbation, provocation, provoking, torment, trouble, vexation, bedevilment, bothering, irking, molestation, pestering, vexing |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, furtherance, help, support, facilitation |
| Main Entry: | maddening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, provoking, trying, vexatious, aggravating, exasperating, frustrating, infuriating, riling, troubling |
| Main Entry: | pesky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothersome |
| Synonyms: | annoying, disturbing, irksome, mean, nettlesome, provoking, troublesome, ugly, vexatious, wicked, peeving, vexing |
| Antonyms: | pleasing, untroubling |
| Main Entry: | provocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incitement, stimulus |
| Synonyms: | affront, annoyance, cause, challenge, dare, defy, grievance, grounds, harassment, incentive, indignity, inducement, injury, instigation, insult, justification, motivation, offense, provoking, reason, taunt, vexation, bothering, brickbat, casus belli, grabber, irking, vexing |
| Antonyms: | prevention, repression, suppression |
| Main Entry: | sexy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being erotically attractive to another |
| Synonyms: | cuddly, flirtatious, hot*, inviting, libidinous, mature, provocative, provoking, racy, risqué, seductive, sensual, sensuous, slinky, spicy*, steamy, suggestive, voluptuous, arousing, come-hither, kissable, titillating |
| Antonyms: | disgusting, unattractive, unsexy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stirring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving, rousing |
| Synonyms: | awakening, dynamic, emotional, exhilarating, heartbreaking, heartrending, inspiring, provoking, stimulating, touching, arousing, electrifying, gripping, inspirational, motivating |
| Main Entry: | tempting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alluring, inviting |
| Synonyms: | appetizing, attractive, charming, divine, fascinating, fetching, heavenly, intriguing, magnetic, mouth-watering*, provoking, rousing, scrumptious, seductive, yummy*, enticing, luring, tantalizing |
| Antonyms: | repulsive, revolting, unattractive, disenchanting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | umbrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal displeasure |
| Synonyms: | anger, annoyance, chagrin, exasperation, fury, grudge, huff, indignation, injury, ire, irritation, miff*, offense, pique, provoking, rage, resentment, vexation, wrath, high dudgeon, irking, nettling, sense of injury |
| Antonyms: | happiness, like, love, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vexatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressing, bothersome |
| Synonyms: | annoying, burdensome, disagreeable, disappointing, disturbing, irksome, irritating, mean, pesky*, provoking, teasing, troublesome, trying, ugly, unpleasant, wicked, worrisome, worrying, afflicting, aggravating, exasperating, nagging, tormenting, troublous, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | assisting, helpful, pleasing, soothing, aiding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disturbing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disquieting |
| Synonyms: | alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discouraging, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, hard, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, wearisome, worrisome, worrying, aggravating, agitating, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, harassing, impeding, perturbing, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, vexing |
| Main Entry: | irritating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vexatious |
| Synonyms: | annoying, bothersome, disturbing, provoking, trying |
| Main Entry: | persecution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affliction |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, banishment, bashing, exile, expulsion, galling, imprisonment, infliction, killing, maltreatment, massacre, murder, oppression, provoking, teasing, torment, torture, torture, ill-treatment, mistreatment, pestering |
| Antonyms: | help, stimulation, succor |
| Main Entry: | teasing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pestering |
| Synonyms: | disturbing, irritating, joking, mocking, provoking, tickling, badgering, bothering, exasperating, harassing, kidding, plaguing, ribbing, taunting, tormenting, vexing |
| Antonyms: | comforting, praising, regaling |
| Main Entry: | moving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affecting, exciting |
| Synonyms: | affective, awakening, breathless, dynamic, eloquent, emotional, expressive, far-out*, hairy*, heartbreaking, heartrending, impressive, inspiring, meaningful, mind-blowing*, persuasive, poignant, provoking, rousing, sententious, significant, something*, stimulating, stirring, stunning, touching, arousing, emotive, facund, felt in gut, grabbed by, gripping, impelling, inspirational, mind-bending, motivating, propelling, quickening, rallying, stimulative, turned on by |
| Antonyms: | unemotional, unexciting, unmoving, unaffecting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | provocative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggravating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, disturbing, exciting, galling, heady, influential, insulting, intoxicating, offensive, outrageous, provoking, pushing, stimulant, stimulating, challenging, goading, incensing, inciting, inspirational, spurring |
| Antonyms: | repressive, suppressive, unprovocative |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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