Definitions
Likely to stir reaction, debate, or strong feeling.
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French provocatif, and its source, Late Latin provocativus, from Latin provocare.
Used in a sentence
“[I]t is a terrible long and slippery descent, and a shocking bad road. At the bottom, however, there is a pleasant public; whereat we must really take a modest quencher, for the down air is provocative of thirst.”
“And the ‘wailing noise,’ which had induced the prosaic, indurated London cabman to get twice off his box to see what was the matter, what anguish had been provocative of that?”
“She used by way of Provocative, to read the wanton Verses of her Paramour in the day time [...].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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