Definitions for tantalizing

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tantalizing tan·ta·liz·ing

Spelling: [tan-tl-ahy-zing]

IPA: /ˈtæn tlˌaɪ zɪŋ/

Tantalizing is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 249 anagrams from letters in tantalizing (aagiilnnttz).

Definitions for tantalizing

adjective

1. having or exhibiting something that provokes or arouses expectation, interest, or desire, especially that which remains unobtainable or beyond one's reach:

verb (used with object)

1. to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.

Origin of tantalizing

First recorded in 1650-60; tantalize + -ing²

Examples for tantalizing

It had a familiar, tantalizing taste but he couldn't quite put a taste-finger on it.

She remembers, of course, being tantalized by the tantalizing opening breakdown scene.

His wife's fine indifference was tantalizing, also instructive.

It requires something on the scale of an earthquake, which is why impeachment talk is so tantalizing.

In support of his assessment, he offers a number of tantalizing theories, only partially undergirded by fully explored evidence.

Academy: As tantalizing a problem as was ever bound in cloth.

I knew of nothing in the fishing game as tantalizing and despairing as this sight.

There are tantalizing snippets of love affairs and brief trysts—including a dalliance with Mick Jagger.

Madame Cézanne is ultimately about the figure in the portraits rather than the person, who remains a tantalizing enigma.

The voice was almost as familiar to him as was his own, and yet it persisted in tantalizing his memory.