Word Meanings - PROVOCATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting.
Related words: (words related to PROVOCATIVE)
- TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes - SERVING
a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant, - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - SERVO-MOTOR
A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve - EXCITABLE
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated. - SERVILELY
In a servile manner; slavishly. - TENDERLY
In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer. - TENDANCE
1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak. - EXCITING
Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes. - TENDERNESS
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. - SERVILENESS
Quality of being servile; servility. - EXCITATION
The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon. - EXCITABILITY
The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited; - SERVABLE
Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym: - SERVITORSHIP
The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell. - SERVER
1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph. - EXCITATOR
A kind of discarder. - EXCITATE
To excite. Bacon. - SERVIAN
Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n. - TENDRESSE
Tender feeling; fondness. - DISSERVE
To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym: - RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - DESERVEDNESS
Meritoriousness. - CONSERVATIONAL
Tending to conserve; preservative. - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke. - INTENDENT
See N - SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley. - INSERVE
To be of use to an end; to serve. - PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety. - OBSERVANCY
Observance. - MANSERVANT
A male servant.