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Meaning of "provokable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROVOKABLE

provokable  [prəˈvəʊkəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROVOKABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Provokable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROVOKABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of provokable in the English dictionary

The definition of provokable in the dictionary is able to be provoked.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROVOKABLE


applicable
ˈæplɪkəbəl
bookable
ˈbʊkəbəl
brookable
ˈbrʊkəbəl
despicable
dɪˈspɪkəbəl
educable
ˈɛdjʊkəbəl
impeccable
ɪmˈpɛkəbəl
ineducable
ɪnˈɛdjʊkəbəl
manducable
ˈmændjʊkəbəl
pokable
ˈpəʊkəbəl
provocable
prəˈvəʊkəbəl
remarkable
rɪˈmɑːkəbəl
revokable
rɪˈvəʊkəbəl
smokable
ˈsməʊkəbəl
smokeable
ˈsməʊkəbəl
stackable
ˈstækəbəl
unbreakable
ʌnˈbreɪkəbəl
uneducable
ʌnˈɛdjʊkəbəl
unsmokable
ʌnˈsməʊkəbəl
vocable
ˈvəʊkəbəl
workable
ˈwɜːkəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROVOKABLE

provocable
provocant
provocateur
provocation
provocative
provocatively
provocativeness
provocator
provocatory
provoke
provokement
provoker
provoking
provokingly
provolone
provost
provost court
provost guard
provost marshal
provostry

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROVOKABLE

able
bankable
breakable
checkable
clickable
drinkable
hackable
likable
lockable
packable
shrinkable
trackable
undrinkable
unlikable
unlockable
unmistakable
unremarkable
unshakable
unspeakable
unworkable
walkable

Synonyms and antonyms of provokable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «provokable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROVOKABLE

Find out the translation of provokable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of provokable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «provokable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

provokable
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

provokable
570 millions of speakers

English

provokable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

provokable
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

provokable
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

возбудимой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

provokable
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

provokable
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

provokable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Provokable
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

provozierbar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

provokable
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

provokable
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Provokabel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

provokable
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

provokable
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Provokable
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

provokable
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

provokable
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

provokable
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

збудливою
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

provokable
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

provokable
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

provokable
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

provokable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

provokable
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of provokable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROVOKABLE»

The term «provokable» is barely ever used and occupies the 204.851 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROVOKABLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about provokable

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROVOKABLE»

Discover the use of provokable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to provokable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Why Humans Cooperate : A Cultural and Evolutionary ...
TFT is PROVOKABLE but not GENEROUS at all, because a person using TFT stops cooperating as soon as it appears her partner has defected. Not being GENEROUS in a noisy environment can lead to substantially reduced amounts of  ...
Joseph Henrich Assistant Professor of Anthropology Emory University, Department of Anthropology Emory University Natalie Henrich Adjunct Professor, 2007
2
Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
TFT is PROVOKABLE but not GENEROUSat all, because aperson using TFTstops cooperating as soonas it appears her partner has defected. Notbeing GENEROUS ina noisy environment canlead to substantially reduced amountsof ...
Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich, 2007
3
Cardiovascular Medicine
Decisions on the optimal training load are complicated in patients with provokable ischemia, for whom the desired training intensity may fall above the ischemic threshold. There currently is no consensus on how to train patients who have clear ...
James T. Willerson, Jay N. Cohn, Hein J.J. Wellens, 2007
4
Why humans cooperate: a cultural and evolutionary explanation
TFT is provokable but not generous at all, because a person using TFT stops cooperating as soon as it appears her partner has defected. Not being generous in a noisy environment can lead to substantially reduced amounts of cooperation,  ...
Natalie Henrich, Joseph Patrick Henrich, 2007
5
GAMES INDIANS PLAY: why we are the way we are
What Axelrod showed is that in an iterative PD situation, even if one is supremely selfish and sees nothing beyond maximizing satisfaction points for oneself, it pays to be nice, simple, provokable, forgiving, unenvious and the one who never  ...
V. RAGHUNATHAN, 2008
6
Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law
That is, they begin by cooperating and do not stop cooperating unless the other does. Second, they are "provokable"; if the other side tries to defect, they punish them with defection on the next or next several moves. Third, they are "forgiving.
Leo Katz, 2012
7
Competitive Strategy: Options and Games
According to Axelrod, tit for tat is successful because it is “nice, ” “ provokable,” and “forgiving.” A nice strategy is one that is never first to defect. In a match between two nice strategies, both do well. A provokable strategy responds by defecting ...
Benoît Chevalier-Roignant, Lenos Trigeorgis, 2011
8
Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, ...
I would suggest that, although the child needs to explore fully the fact that she has a wildly provokable object or a very provocative part of herself, she cannot explore either while she is so overwhelmed. She can only explore from a relatively ...
Anne Alvarez, 2012
9
NonInvasive Cardiovascular Imaging: A Multimodality Approach
Immediate reductions of 40 mm Hg can be expected, but in the acute setting a significant number of patients will have a substantial provokable gradient. Because remodeling of the infarcted segment will take days to weeks, the maximal ...
Mario J. Garcia, 2012
10
Modelling Norms
It is also provokable, i.e. it retaliates for defection. It is important that retaliation for defection occurs quickly to undermine immediately the idea that defection can pay. Strategies that were 'slower to anger' performed worse than the simple ...
Corinna Elsenbroich, Nigel Gilbert, 2013

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« EDUCALINGO. Provokable [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/provokable>. Apr 2024 ».
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