Tantalizing
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·4 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 teasing temptation
"[…] my resources against depressing thoughts and languor, amid the tantalizings of society […]"
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of tantalize form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 Teasing; tempting, especially that which is beyond reach.
"...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe."
Adjective
- 1 very pleasantly inviting wordnet
- 2 arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach wordnet
Example
More examples"Make those images of the dishes as tantalizing as possible."
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