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instigatory

instigatory adjective: tending to instigate or provoke.

Adjective

instigatory (comparative more instigatory, superlative most instigatory)

  1. Tending to instigate or provoke.

Forms of instigatory

comparativemore instigatory
superlativemost instigatory

Origin of instigatory

From instigate + -ory.

Questions about instigatory

What does instigatory mean?
Instigatory means tending to instigate or provoke.
What part of speech is instigatory?
Instigatory is an adjective.

Words near instigatory in the dictionary

  1. instigation
  2. instigations
  3. instigative
  4. instigator
  5. instigators
  6. instigatory
  7. instigatour
  8. instigatours
  9. instigatress
  10. instigatresses
  11. instigatrices

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