provocative

Have you seen his latest book? It's very provocative. - I have seen it, and it's not provocative, it's incendiary.¿Has visto su último libro? Te hace reflexionar. - Lo he visto y no, no te hace reflexionar, es incendiario.

provocative

Un adjetivo es una palabra que describe a un sustantivo (p.ej. el perro grande).

adjetivo

1. (polemical)

a. provocador(ora)

2. (sexually)

a. provocativo(a)

provocative [prəˈvɒkətɪv]

adjetivo

1 (inflammatory) [+remark, behaviour] provocador; [+act] de provocación; provocador

this regulation holds clubs responsible for ensuring that their employees conduct themselves in an orderly fashion and refrain from violent, threatening, abusive, obscene or provocative behaviour It was a deliberately provocative comment couched in impertinent terms They are being deliberately provocative. It looks like war Iraq was also told it must cease hostile or provocative actions against other countries

2 (thought-provoking) [+book, film] sugestivo; que hace reflexionar; [+title] sugestivo

the discoveries in Alaska don't allow anthropologists to determine what really happened and when, but they do raise a lot of provocative questions

3 (seductive) [+person] seductor; [+clothing, look, smile] provocativo

she lifted the oval of her face to him in the provocative way she had partially naked women in sexually provocative poses

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