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having or exhibiting something that provokes or arouses expectation, interest, or desire, especially that which remains unobtainable or beyond one's reach: a tantalizing taste of success.
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tan·ta·liz·ing·ly, adverb
un·tan·ta·liz·ing, adjective
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Tantalizing
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verb (used with object), -lized, -liz·ing.
to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
Also, especially British, tan·ta·lise.
Related forms
tan·ta·li·za·tion, noun
tan·ta·liz·er, noun
un·tan·ta·lized, adjective
Synonyms
provoke, taunt, tempt; frustrate.
provoke, taunt, tempt; frustrate.
Antonyms
satisfy.
satisfy.
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tantalize
1590s, from L. Tantalus, from Gk. Tantalos, king of Phrygia, son of Zeus, punished in the afterlife (for an offense variously given) by being made to stand in a river up to his chin, under branches laden with fruit, all of which withdrew from his reach whenever he tried
EXPANDto eat or drink. His story was known to Chaucer (c.1369).
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