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instigatingadjective serving or likely to arouse a strong reactionan artist who deliberately creates instigating works of art that are sure to arouse controversy charged, edgy, exciting, inciting, instigative, piquing, provocative, provoking, stimulating explosive, fiery, incendiary, inflammatory, triggeringinducing, inspirational, inspiring, motivating, motivational, motivativejeering, taunting, teasingactivating, energizing, galvanizing, quickening, vitalizingangering, enraging, maddening, upsettingaggravating, annoying, bothersome, exasperating, galling, irksome, irritating, pesky, vexatious, vexing noninflammatory subduing to bring (something volatile or intense) into beingthe medical breakthrough instigated a whole new field of therapy abetting, brewing, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, picking, provoking, raising, stirring (up), whipping (up) advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting, sowing, stimulatingdetonating, setting, setting off, triggeringexciting, galvanizing, inflaming(also enflaming), inspiring, motivating, rousingactivating, energizing, enlivening, firing, invigorating, jazzing (up), livening (up), pepping (up), quickening, stimulating, vitalizing setting in motion bridling, checking, constraining, curbing, discouraging, holding, inhibiting, regulating, reining (in), restraining, tamingallaying, calming, quieting, settling, soothing, stilling, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) to rouse to strong feeling or actionthe charge that the scene in the movie had instigated teenagers to commit similar acts of vandalism arousing, encouraging, exciting, firing (up), impassioning, inciting, moving, piquing, provoking, revving (up), sparking, stimulating, stirring fanning, igniting, inflaming(also enflaming), kindling, triggeringactivating, animating, driving, energizing, galvanizing, inducing, inspiring, keying (up), motivating, motiving, pumping up, quickening, setting off, vitalizingabetting, fermenting, fomenting, raising, whipping (up)angering, enraging, maddening, upsettingjeering, taunting, teasingaggravating, annoying, bothering, exasperating, galling, getting, irritating, vexing building a fire under calming, soothing, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)appeasing, mollifying, pacifying, placating |