www.thesaurus.com Open in urlscan Pro
2a04:4e42:400::645  Public Scan

Form analysis
2 forms found in the DOM

<form class="MVS5eqUHRk0QWaw5x6ct zgy_r0w5SEu7zVYxSj0h" data-type="global-search">
  <div class="OzuZFtqfCq8zxJJAPs_V">
    <div class="__wb0CBZrmMjA6B7pjUV"><input aria-autocomplete="list" autocapitalize="none" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autofocus="" id="global-search" placeholder="Start typing any word or phrase" spellcheck="false" type="text"
        value=""><button data-command="" type="submit" class="SFL_CJwX_oOmq1DF63xo" data-type="button"><svg aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="magnifying-glass"
          class="svg-inline--fa fa-magnifying-glass XIY1H2IYm3KpPi8LtNGe" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512">
          <path fill="currentColor"
            d="M416 208c0 45.9-14.9 88.3-40 122.7L502.6 457.4c12.5 12.5 12.5 32.8 0 45.3s-32.8 12.5-45.3 0L330.7 376c-34.4 25.2-76.8 40-122.7 40C93.1 416 0 322.9 0 208S93.1 0 208 0S416 93.1 416 208zM208 352a144 144 0 1 0 0-288 144 144 0 1 0 0 288z">
          </path>
        </svg></button></div>
  </div>
</form>

<form class="m2vhoaPYlnB2uCMHjjAm" data-type="signup-form">
  <div class="bdBVVriQASXS7mfzcXZG"><input aria-autocomplete="list" autocapitalize="none" autocomplete="on" autocorrect="off" name="sign-up" placeholder="Enter your email address" spellcheck="false" type="text" value=""><button data-command=""
      type="submit" class="HCFGzM1l2jgbzwxYYaNA" data-location="footer" data-type="sign-up" data-analytics="aa-track" data-linkmodule="sign-up" data-linkname="email-submit" data-linktype="cta">Sign up</button></div>
</form>

Text Content

Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

 * Games
 * Featured
 * Pop culture
 * Writing tips
 * 

 * Games
   * Daily Crossword
   * Word Puzzle
   * Word Finder
   * All games
 * Featured
   * Word of the Day
   * Synonym of the Day
   * Word of the Year
   * New words
   * Language stories
   * All featured
 * Pop culture
   * Slang
   * Emoji
   * Memes
   * Acronyms
   * Gender and sexuality
   * All pop culture
 * Writing tips
   * Grammar CoachTM
   * Writing hub
   * Grammar essentials
   * Commonly confused
   * All writing tips
 * Account



👀 New Dictionary Words Just Dropped! “Decision Fatigue,” “Jawn,” & More! Look
now

✕
 * thesaurus
 * inciting




INCITING


See definition of inciting on Dictionary.com
as in provocative


SYNONYMS FOR INCITING


Most relevant
 * challenging
 * disturbing
 * exciting
 * inspirational
 * insulting
 * offensive
 * outrageous
 * annoying
 * galling
 * goading
 * heady
 * incensing
 * influential
 * intoxicating
 * provoking
 * pushing
 * spurring
 * stimulant
 * stimulating

Compare Synonyms
1
/
14
Circumlocution: Word of the Day
Read More




Video Player is loading.
Play Video
Unmute

Duration 0:00
/
Current Time 0:00
Advanced Settings

Loaded: 0%

0:00

Remaining Time -0:00
 
FullscreenPlayUp Next

This is a modal window.



Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.

TextColorWhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentBackgroundColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparentWindowColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyTransparentSemi-TransparentOpaque
Font Size50%75%100%125%150%175%200%300%400%Text Edge
StyleNoneRaisedDepressedUniformDropshadowFont FamilyProportional
Sans-SerifMonospace Sans-SerifProportional SerifMonospace SerifCasualScriptSmall
Caps
Reset restore all settings to the default valuesDone
Close Modal Dialog

End of dialog window.

Share
Settings

Playback Speed
Normal
Closed Captions
Off
Replay the list
TOP ARTICLES







 * Powered by AnyClip
 * Privacy Policy



Circumlocution: Word of the Day
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
Sartorial: Word of the Day
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
Stay Tuned For The New Words Drop Sept. 6
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
New Words: "Coffee Nap" Is In The Dictionary!
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
Grandiloquent: Word of the Day
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
Slang Every 90s Kid Knows
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
Jolabokaflod: Word of the Day
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
Whose vs. Who's: Stella The Pup Explains
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
New Words: "Agelast" Is In The Dictionary!
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
New Words: "Jawn" Is In The Dictionary!
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
Carl & Marty: Weather Words You Need To Know
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
The Gory Meaning Behind The Word “Sarcophagus”
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
How To Pronounce "Niche"
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT
What's So Wrong With "Nice"?
NOW PLAYING
UP NEXT


Circumlocution: Word of the Day


On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inciting,
such as: challenging, disturbing, exciting, inspirational, insulting, and
offensive.



ANTONYMS FOR INCITING

Most relevant

 * pleasing
 * repressive
 * suppressive
 * unexciting
 * unprovocative
 * unstimulating

Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip
Lief Group.



Quiz

Pogonophiles, Comb Over This Hairy Word Of The Day Quiz!

Start the Quiz



HOW TO USE INCITING IN A SENTENCE

 * Facebook had also removed two videos from his page for inciting violence.
   
   Facebook takes down a widespread network of pages tied to Stephen Bannon for
   pushing misinformation | Elizabeth Dwoskin | November 9, 2020 | Washington
   Post

 * Both companies say they will remove posts that incite violence.
   
   Five ways political groups are getting around ad bans | Tate Ryan-Mosley |
   November 3, 2020 | MIT Technology Review

 * The pages and users who incite the attacks are not reviewed to such a degree
   as LGBTQ pages and users, and the disproportionate censoring could be due to
   the algorithms and systems in place, they said.
   
   Transgender activist once again banned from Facebook page | Kaela Roeder |
   October 30, 2020 | Washington Blade

 * Since then, the board has demanded that Facebook try harder by deleting posts
   that prematurely claim one of the candidates has won and better enforcing its
   prohibition against hate groups and inciting violence.
   
   Facebook’s fight against outside oversight | Danielle Abril | October 29,
   2020 | Fortune

 * Spotify says on its website it bans material that “promotes, advocates, or
   incites hatred or violence against a group or individual” based on certain
   characteristics, but doesn’t say it removes material simply because it’s
   false.
   
   Spotify draws fire over Alex Jones’s claims in Joe Rogan podcast | Verne
   Kopytoff | October 28, 2020 | Fortune

 * They were found guilty of practicing habitual debauchery and inciting others
   to sexual deviance because of the footage.
   
   Sisi Is Persecuting, Prosecuting, and Publicly Shaming Egypt’s Gays | Bel
   Trew | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

 * On top of inciting violence that led to the death of a 16-year-old boy, it
   was confusing to residents.
   
   Meet the Liberian Girls Beating Ebola | Abby Haglage | October 29, 2014 | THE
   DAILY BEAST

 * By inciting individual sympathizers to carry out attacks in Western
   countries, ISIS believes it can advance its cause at no cost.
   
   Lone Wolves, Terrorist Runts, and the Stray Dogs of ISIS | Jacob Siegel |
   October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

 * Isaacs says that the epidemic is inciting panic worldwide that, in his
   opinion, may soon be warranted.
   
   Ebola Experts Warn of an African ‘Apocalypse’ | Abby Haglage | August 7, 2014
   | THE DAILY BEAST

 * Dobkin, was arrested Monday on charges of ‘inciting separatism’ in a dramatic
   move that has sent shock waves through the region.
   
   Is Kharkiv Ukraine’s Next Tipping Point? | Vijai Maheshwari | March 13, 2014
   | THE DAILY BEAST

 * They were cursed by the Church as trappings of the Devil, inciting the wearer
   to foul deeds and intrigue.
   
   The Medici Boots | Pearl Norton Swet

 * He had previously been sent to prison for inciting to the Plan of Campaign,
   and for criminal conspiracy.
   
   Is Ulster Right? | Anonymous

 * Perhaps his patrons were engaged in too serious crimes to waste their energy
   in inciting him to petty persecutions of Ralegh.
   
   Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing

 * Here were poor innocent working men, and here was this bloodthirsty
   swash-buckler inciting their own brothers to slay them.
   
   Thirty Years in Australia | Ada Cambridge

 * In Greece, on the other hand, Russian partisans succeeded in inciting the
   populace to revolt.
   
   A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin Emerson

See More Examples


Synonym of the Day

Sep 06, 2023

Choose the synonym for paradise


 * coterie
 * utopia
 * paroxysm


WORDS RELATED TO INCITING


PROVOCATIVE

adjectiveaggravating
 * annoying
 * challenging
 * disturbing
 * exciting
 * galling
 * goading
 * heady
 * incensing
 * inciting
 * influential
 * inspirational
 * insulting
 * intoxicating
 * offensive
 * outrageous
 * provoking
 * pushing
 * spurring
 * stimulant
 * stimulating

Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip
Lief Group.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Word of the Day

circumlocution
noun | sur-kuhm-loh-kyoo-shuhn
See DefinitionSeptember 09, 2023
Did You Know? powered by carambola
The shortest, complete sentence in the English language is "Go."

Did You Know? powered by carambola
The only planet in the solar system not named after a god is Earth, its
English/German name simply means "ground."

Did You Know? powered by carambola
The word "lol," short for laugh out loud, was added to Dictionary.com in 2015.

Did You Know? powered by carambola
The word "infant" comes from the Latin word "infans" which literally means
"unable to speak; speechless."

Did You Know? powered by carambola
While "E" is the most commonly used English letter, more English words begin
with the letter "S" than any other letter of the alphabet.

1/Infinity






 * Synonyms For
 * Antonyms For
 * Related Words

⋮

Browse

#aabbccddeeffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz
AboutCareersShopContact usCookies, terms, & privacyManage Preferences

Follow us

 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 

Get the Word of the Day every day!

Sign up
My account
© 2023 Dictionary.com, LLC

BACK

Select up to 3 synonyms to compare

Synonyms of inciting (adj. aggravating)

 * challenging
 * disturbing
 * exciting
 * inspirational
 * insulting
 * offensive
 * outrageous
 * annoying
 * galling
 * goading
 * heady
 * incensing
 * influential
 * intoxicating
 * provoking
 * pushing
 * spurring
 * stimulant
 * stimulating

Compare Synonyms


PRIVACY

NOUN //


THE STATE OF BEING CONCEALED.

We and our partners store and/or access information on a device, such as unique
IDs in cookies to process personal data. You may accept or manage your choices
by clicking below or at any time in the privacy policy page. These choices will
be signaled to our partners and will not affect browsing data.


WE AND OUR PARTNERS PROCESS DATA TO PROVIDE:

Store and/or access information on a device. Personalised ads and content, ad
and content measurement, audience insights and product development. List of
Partners (vendors)

Accept All Cookies Reject All Cookie Settings