Synonyms for Provoking:

• adj.

  •aggravating (adjective)
  • provocative.
  •bitter (adjective)
  • un-palatable,
  • dis agreeable,
  • in tenser,
  • un-pleasant,
  • dis tasteful,
  • in-temperate,
  • in-tenser,
  • in-tensest,
  • in-tense,
  • in-clement,
  • in clement,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • un palatable,
  • in tense,
  • in temperate,
  • dis pleasing,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • un pleasant.
  •crisp (adjective)
  • more piquing,
  • clearcut,
  • most piquing.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • dis-comforting,
  • de pressing,
  • dis composing,
  • dis concerting,
  • most foreboding,
  • embarrassing,
  • de-pressing,
  • more agitating,
  • most discomposing,
  • fore-boding,
  • fore boding,
  • dis-maying,
  • more foreboding,
  • more dismaying,
  • more disconcerting,
  • most agitating,
  • more discomforting,
  • in-convenient,
  • more discomposing,
  • most dismaying,
  • impeding,
  • dis-composing,
  • dis-concerting,
  • most discomforting,
  • dis comforting,
  • most disconcerting,
  • dis maying,
  • most discommoding,
  • more discommoding,
  • in convenient,
  • most impeding,
  • more impeding.
  •engrossing (adjective)
  • more all consuming,
  • all consuming,
  • pre occupying,
  • most all consuming,
  • obsessing,
  • more allconsuming,
  • ex-citing,
  • more captivating,
  • more monopolizing,
  • most all-consuming,
  • more preoccupying,
  • most obsessing,
  • allconsuming,
  • most preoccupying,
  • pre-occupying,
  • more obsessing,
  • more all-consuming,
  • most allconsuming,
  • ex citing,
  • most monopolizing,
  • most captivating.
  •galling (adjective)
  • Harassing,
  • Plaguing.
  •irritating (adjective)
  • maddening.
  •maddening (adjective)
  • troubling.
  •moving (adjective)
  • mind-bending,
  • stimulative,
  • felt in gut,
  • turned on by,
  • grabbed by,
  • inspirational.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • come hither,
  • bitter,
  • troublous,
  • sexy,
  • disturbing,
  • vexatious,
  • unsettling,
  • mouthwatering,
  • kissable,
  • upsetting,
  • pesky,
  • moving,
  • all-consuming,
  • tempting,
  • stirring,
  • crisp,
  • engrossing,
  • perturbing,
  • clear cut.
  •perturbing (adjective)
  • dis quieting,
  • dis-quieting.
  •pesky (adjective)
  • more peeving,
  • most peeving.
  •sexy (adjective)
  • comehither,
  • more kissable,
  • more titillating,
  • most titillating,
  • most kissable,
  • flirtatious.
  •stirring (adjective)
  • more electrifying,
  • most electrifying.
  •teasing (adjective)
  • more bothering,
  • most kidding,
  • more taunting,
  • most badgering,
  • most bothering,
  • more kidding,
  • most tickling,
  • more badgering,
  • more tickling,
  • most ribbing,
  • more ribbing,
  • most taunting.
  •tempting (adjective)
  • mouth watering.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un settling,
  • un-settling.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • up-setting.
  •vexing (adjective)
  • distressing.

• n.

  •
  • pain,
  • troublesome.
  •agitating (noun)
  • agitating.
  •agitative (noun)
  • agitative.
  •harassment (noun)
  • be-devilment,
  • irkings,
  • vexings,
  • bedevilments,
  • be devilment,
  • provokings,
  • be devilments,
  • be-devilments.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • harassment,
  • ill-treatment,
  • molestations,
  • grabber,
  • umbrage,
  • grabbers,
  • persecution,
  • provocation,
  • bedevilment,
  • ribbing,
  • molestation,
  • brickbat,
  • casus belli,
  • sense of injury,
  • mistreatment,
  • high dudgeon,
  • ill treatments,
  • brickbats.
  •persecution (noun)
  • ill-treatments,
  • mis-treatments,
  • mis treatment,
  • ill treatment,
  • mis-treatment,
  • mis treatments,
  • teasings,
  • gallings,
  • illtreatment,
  • illtreatments.
  •provocation (noun)
  • in jury,
  • pro-vocations,
  • pro-vocation,
  • in-dignities,
  • in juries,
  • in-jury,
  • pro vocations,
  • pro vocation,
  • in dignities.
  •ribbing (noun)
  • mockings.
  •umbrage (noun)
  • nettlings,
  • high dudgeons,
  • sense injury.

• v.

  •causing (verb)
  • inducing,
  • engineering,
  • causing,
  • acting,
  • making,
  • Evoking,
  • inspiring,
  • Engendering,
  • bringing about,
  • Enforcing,
  • Originating,
  • driving,
  • Forcing,
  • giving rise to,
  • Eliciting,
  • Generating,
  • executing,
  • Producing,
  • Effecting,
  • motivating.
  •displeasing (verb)
  • Riling,
  • offending,
  • repelling,
  • jarring,
  • Scandalizing,
  • disgusting,
  • Angering,
  • displeasing,
  • Bothering,
  • Aggrieving,
  • annoying,
  • shocking,
  • disappointing,
  • grating,
  • irritating.
  •motivating (verb)
  • impelling,
  • Nudging,
  • slinging,
  • jostling,
  • catapulting,
  • jolting,
  • stimulating,
  • pushing,
  • hurtling,
  • energizing,
  • poking,
  • thrusting,
  • hurling,
  • Instigating,
  • Bumping,
  • fermenting,
  • goading,
  • Magnetizing,
  • jerking,
  • prodding,
  • urging,
  • knocking,
  • enticing,
  • heaving,
  • prompting,
  • Lobbing,
  • triggering,
  • Throwing,
  • Ramming,
  • jogging,
  • Fomenting,
  • Shoving,
  • firing,
  • pitching,
  • striking,
  • encouraging,
  • launching,
  • shooting,
  • Punching,
  • hastening,
  • propelling,
  • Flinging.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • nettlesome,
  • teasing.
  •
  • Irksome,
  • plaguy,
  • galling,
  • bothersome.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • exhilarating,
  • annoy,
  • instigate,
  • aggravating,
  • chafing,
  • intoxicating,
  • harry,
  • erecting,
  • worrisome,
  • awakening,
  • suspenseful,
  • cleaning,
  • charged,
  • cliff-hanging,
  • kindle,
  • electrical,
  • wearisome,
  • irking,
  • ardent,
  • Suggesting,
  • disconcert,
  • Culling,
  • Dismissing,
  • shadow,
  • challenging,
  • alluring,
  • impassioned,
  • wrath,
  • exacerbate,
  • goad,
  • badgering,
  • curse,
  • sexing,
  • stinging,
  • sacking,
  • heckling,
  • get,
  • Plucking,
  • rich,
  • rallying,
  • overmastering,
  • Influencing,
  • mischievously,
  • shade,
  • unaccommodating,
  • spicy,
  • tantalizing,
  • anger,
  • resentment,
  • Distracting,
  • antagonizing,
  • inflame,
  • emotional,
  • enrage,
  • irritant,
  • importunate,
  • racy,
  • hassle,
  • give rise to,
  • Nibbling,
  • agony,
  • energising,
  • warm,
  • confuse,
  • stimulation,
  • pestilential,
  • Egging,
  • lively,
  • infuriate,
  • exasperatingly,
  • stimulate,
  • Abetting,
  • exasperation,
  • Pecking,
  • Enhancing,
  • farming,
  • infuriatingly,
  • pestiferous,
  • gratingly,
  • irritate,
  • irritatingly,
  • make,
  • create,
  • elicit,
  • interesting,
  • enthusiastic,
  • tiresome,
  • inconveniently,
  • Overcoming,
  • Vexatiously,
  • burn,
  • peevishly,
  • enhance,
  • spurring,
  • displeasure,
  • vex,
  • Outraging,
  • telling,
  • footing,
  • Lifting,
  • galvanic,
  • soul-stirring,
  • alienating,
  • Hounding,
  • resurrecting,
  • picking,
  • Levying,
  • daring,
  • rearing,
  • teasingly,
  • wakening,
  • Chivying,
  • encrusting,
  • tickling,
  • increasing,
  • tediously,
  • Incensement,
  • disturb,
  • bugging,
  • agitate,
  • bring about,
  • pestilent,
  • taunting,
  • Educing,
  • inviting,
  • Importune,
  • thought-provoking,
  • testingly,
  • aggravation,
  • titillating,
  • suspensive,
  • Nettling,
  • Invoking,
  • conjuring,
  • exasperate,
  • juicy,
  • readable,
  • thrilling,
  • heady,
  • invite,
  • rousing,
  • awkward,
  • heating,
  • exciting,
  • whipping,
  • boringly,
  • ravishing,
  • raising,
  • Exhorting,
  • Enraging,
  • construct,
  • Igniting,
  • rouse,
  • fervent,
  • burning,
  • rile,
  • insulting,
  • heightening,
  • pestering,
  • torment,
  • offend,
  • humorously,
  • Arousing,
  • Enkindling,
  • Inciting,
  • instigative,
  • overwhelming,
  • defy,
  • worrying,
  • incensing,
  • offense,
  • Harrying,
  • passionate,
  • pricking,
  • frustratingly,
  • uneasily,
  • touching,
  • glowing,
  • aggravatingly,
  • Occasioning,
  • heart-stirring,
  • Extracting,
  • disquieting,
  • Promoting,
  • galvanizing,
  • parenting,
  • pique,
  • breathtaking,
  • animating,
  • foment,
  • emphatic,
  • electric,
  • excite,
  • offence,
  • advancing,
  • baiting,
  • nuisance,
  • Oppressing,
  • impressive,
  • annoyingly,
  • worryingly,
  • vexation,
  • provoke,
  • urgent,
  • aggravate,
  • exasperating,
  • upgrading,
  • piquant,
  • leavening,
  • Blighting,
  • lightheartedly,
  • harshly,
  • plague,
  • hassling,
  • poignant,
  • ravaging,
  • maddeningly,
  • plunking,
  • fueling,
  • kindling,
  • provokingly,
  • actuating,
  • Nurturing,
  • Elevating,
  • exacerbation,
  • Persecuting,
  • intensify,
  • needling,
  • beleaguering,
  • stimulant,
  • tauntingly,
  • tormenting,
  • Blaming,
  • Piecing,
  • gallingly,
  • exacerbating,
  • stir up,
  • invidious,
  • harass,
  • overpowering,
  • plaguesome,
  • Defying,
  • irritation,
  • inflaming,
  • inflammatory,
  • succulent,
  • affecting,
  • rushing,
  • edgy,
  • Piquing,
  • plaguey,
  • bother,
  • Affronting,
  • annoyance,
  • tiresomely,
  • Whetting,
  • incitement,
  • arouse,
  • infuriating,
  • bracing,
  • mortifying,
  • Molesting,
  • vexing,
  • educe,
  • pest,
  • fiery,
  • Discharging,
  • beaking,
  • mind-blowing,
  • Terminating,
  • Ruffling,
  • vehement.

Paraphrases for Provoking:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Arousing.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    provocative, exciting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Evoking, precipitating, prompting, Procuring, sparking, Engendering, Producing, Instigated, Instigating, Generating, motivating, erupting, Fomenting, Eliciting, stirring, leveraging, stoking, Igniting, inflaming, fostering, irritating, inducing, spurring, contributing, Delivering, Originating, galvanizing, upsetting, Attracting, forging, Initiating, incurring, Creating, urging, Inflicting, bringing, Nurturing, Arising, Cultivating, Sowing, causing, instilling, killing, Capturing, leaving, Entailing, unleashing, Forcing, resulting, Spawning, Soliciting, transplanting, drawing, Boosting, catalyzing, burning, raising, teasing, beginning, yielding, effects, Effecting, fueling, fuelling, Exhibiting, giving, dragging, releasing, Egging, Abetting, driving, Implanting, starting, putting, laying, setting, Fanning, ringing, Placing, Having, casting, planting, making, Claiming, lighting, Doing, exciting.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    incite.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Inciting, triggering, Wreaking, leading.

Antonyms for Provoking:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    unprovocative, noninflammatory, unprovoking.