instigative

Definitions

Serving to incite, provoke, or urge on to some action.

Tending to initiate or stimulate a process or event.

Examples

The politician's instigative rhetoric sparked widespread protests across the city.

His instigative behavior during the meeting was clearly intended to provoke a heated argument among the board members.

The journalist was criticized for writing an instigative article that inflamed tensions between the two neighboring countries.

Synonyms

provocative inciting rousing stimulating agitating inflammatory goading

Antonyms

soothing calming pacifying discouraging deterring restraining quelling