piquing

serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction piquing remarks that were said mainly to get a rise out of the other guests at the party Synonyms charged, edgy, exciting, inciting, instigating, instigative, provocative, provoking, stimulatingRelated Words explosive, fiery, incendiary, inflammatory, triggering; inducing, inspirational, inspiring, motivating, motivational, motivative; jeering, taunting, teasing; activating, energizing, galvanizing, quickening, vitalizing; angering, enraging, maddening, upsetting; aggravating, annoying, bothersome, exasperating, galling, irksome, irritating, pesky, vexatious, vexingNear Antonyms subduingAntonyms noninflammatory