Adjective:

चिढ़ानेवाला, खिजलानेवाला, अफ़सोसनाक,

provoking's Usage Examples:

In July of that year Samuel de Champlain discovered the lake which bears his name and on its shores led his Algonquian Indian allies against the Iroquois, thus provoking against his countrymen the hostility of a people who for years were to hold the balance of power between the English and the French in America.

To the situation defined by concordat, however, succeeds another situation, more or less uncertain and more or less strained, in which the two powers legislate separately on mixed matters, sometimes not without provoking conflicts.

The red color is an added attraction, provoking pike into attacking, these poppers are however resistant to pike's teeth.

Unfortunately for him, however, the eldest of them, Tostig, proi~ed the greatest hindrance to his plans, provoking wrath and opposition wherever he went by his highhandedness and cruelty.

His famous description of Greek fire has a most provoking mixture of circumstantial detail with absence of verifying particulars.

Twice, indeed, during that period the chancellor ran the risk of provoking war.

Deidre suspected the result of provoking either man was death to someone.

Apparently he was set on provoking a refusal, and thus getting an excuse for seizing the person of the king.

About this period he was charged with the defence of a member of the national guard of Brives, which was accused of provoking disorders in the department of La Correze.

Deidre didn't move, afraid of provoking him.

Synonyms:

agitating, agitative, provocative,

Antonyms:

nonviolent, unsexy, unexciting, unprovocative,