1 intended to make people angry or upset; intended to make people argue about sth:
a provocative act / book / remark * He doesn't really mean that-he's just being deliberately provocative.
2 intended to make sb sexually excited:
a provocative smile * She was dressed in a highly provocative way.
provocatively adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of provocative come from?
This entry for provocative is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is provocative a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, provocative is tagged as adjective.
Does provocative appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — provocative appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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