Instigative
Instigative adjective - Serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction.
Usage example: she is no stranger to controversy, having penned several instigative and inflammatory books attacking liberals
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Synonyms for Instigative
Stimulating and instigative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stimulating" instead an adjective "Instigative".
Stimulating
Stimulating adjective - Serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction.
Usage example: an article containing a stimulating argument for raising, not lowering, the tax on gasoline
Instigative and stimulating are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Instigative" instead an adjective "Stimulating".
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Related pairs
- moving and instigative
- moving and stimulating
- charged and instigative
- charged and stimulating
- provoking and instigative
- provoking and stimulating
- intriguing and instigative
- intriguing and stimulating
- exciting and instigative
- exciting and stimulating
- quickening and instigative
- quickening and stimulating
- stirring and instigative
- stirring and stimulating
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