Usually means: Causing irritation or slight pain.
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  1. vellicative: Collins English Dictionary
  2. vellicative: Wordnik
  3. vellicative: Wiktionary
  4. Vellicative, vellicative: Dictionary.com
  5. Vellicative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. vellicative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Vellicative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. vellicative: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Vellicative: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.

Similar:
vellicating, vulnific, pestilential, irritating, revulsive, annoying, irritatory, vexatious, revellent, pricklesome, more...

Opposite:
non-vellicative, unexciting, unstimulating, unchallenging

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Similar:
vellicating, vulnific, pestilential, irritating, revulsive, annoying, irritatory, vexatious, revellent, pricklesome, more...

Opposite:
non-vellicative, unexciting, unstimulating, unchallenging



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