Usually means: Stimulating reaction, often intentionally challenging.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word provoking:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. provoking: Merriam-Webster
  2. provoking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. provoking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. provoking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. provoking: Vocabulary.com
  6. Provoking, provoking: Wordnik
  7. provoking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. provoking: Wiktionary
  9. provoking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. provoking: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. provoking: Dictionary.com
  12. provoking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Provoking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. provoking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. provoking: Rhymezone
  16. Provoking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. provoking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. provoking: FreeDictionary.org
  19. provoking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. provoking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. provoking: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. provoking: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. provoking: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (provoking)

▸ adjective:  annoying; irritating
▸ noun:  provocation

Similar:
provocative, agitative, agitating, vexing, provocatory, irritating, irritative, inflammatory, incitant, incensive, more...

Opposite:
calming, soothing, relaxing

Types:
insulting, taunting, teasing, mocking, belittling, provoking argument, more...

Phrases:
thought provoking, Picking quarrels and provoking trouble, though provoking, anxiety provoking, dark and thought provoking, more...

Adjectives:
little, thought, more, own, stress, mighty, anxiety, devilish, fear, laughter, monstrous

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Similar:
provocative, agitative, agitating, vexing, provocatory, irritating, irritative, inflammatory, incitant, incensive, more...

Opposite:
calming, soothing, relaxing

Types:
insulting, taunting, teasing, mocking, belittling, provoking argument, more...

Phrases:
thought provoking, Picking quarrels and provoking trouble, though provoking, anxiety provoking, dark and thought provoking, smart and thought provoking, inspirational and thought provoking, more...

Adjectives:
little, thought, more, own, stress, mighty, anxiety, devilish, fear, laughter, monstrous

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     magenta,     neon green, more...



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