provocative

  • (a) serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy
    • a provocative remark
    • a provocative smile
    • "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope
  • (s) exciting sexual desire
    • her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative

Antonyms

unprovocative unprovoking

See also

exciting

Words of close approximity

provocation
provocatively