tantalizing
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.
Origin of tantalizing
1Other words from tantalizing
- tan·ta·liz·ing·ly, adverb
- un·tan·ta·liz·ing, adjective
Words that may be confused with tantalizing
- tantalizing , titillating
Words Nearby tantalizing
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How to use tantalizing in a sentence
Perhaps the most tantalizing promise of molecular farming in the near future is crops that contain a vaccine.
Molecular Farming Means the Next Vaccine Could Be Edible and Grown in a Plant | Shelly Fan | August 17, 2021 | Singularity HubStudies like this hint at the tantalizing possibilities of advancing technology.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. | Rachel Feltman | August 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIt’s a tantalizing prospect — and slowly, the Schoenfelds start to think he’s onto something, too.
There are also tantalizing hints that body odor doesn’t just influence romantic relationships, but platonic ones, too.
With the fossils we have, there’s the tantalizing possibility that it didn’t just happen once.
Madame Cézanne is ultimately about the figure in the portraits rather than the person, who remains a tantalizing enigma.
She remembers, of course, being tantalized by the tantalizing opening breakdown scene.
Eliza Coupe Finds Her ‘Happy Ending’ With ‘Benched’ | Kevin Fallon | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn support of his assessment, he offers a number of tantalizing theories, only partially undergirded by fully explored evidence.
Because, for me, the idea of the regal Diane in the ratty warehouse digs is positively tantalizing.
‘The Good Wife’ Creators on the Premiere’s Big Cary Twist, Will’s Death, and More | Kevin Fallon | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt requires something on the scale of an earthquake, which is why impeachment talk is so tantalizing.
Pelosi to Boehner: I Quashed Impeachment, and So Can You | Eleanor Clift | August 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut to starving men, with not a mouthful in our grasp, this display of food was tantalizing.
The tantalizing smile came back to the face of the red man, who shook his head.
Two Boys in Wyoming | Edward S. EllisI began to feel that it was better to be here with you blind, than alone in town with that tantalizing half-sight of everything.
The Hidden Places | Bertrand W. SinclairThere was the tantalizing feeling that I was on the verge of knowing at least something.
Sense from Thought Divide | Mark Irvin CliftonThe recollection was as tantalizing as an itch; but he couldn't locate its source.
The Status Civilization | Robert Sheckley
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