Usually means: Appealingly provocative, arousing interest, desire.
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  1. tantalizing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tantalizing: Merriam-Webster
  3. tantalizing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tantalizing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tantalizing, tantalizing: Wordnik
  6. tantalizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tantalizing: Wiktionary
  8. tantalizing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tantalizing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tantalizing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tantalizing: Dictionary.com
  12. tantalizing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Tantalizing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tantalizing: Rhymezone
  15. Tantalizing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. tantalizing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. tantalizing: FreeDictionary.org
  18. tantalizing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tantalizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tantalizing: Legal dictionary

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  1. Tantalizing: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Teasing; tempting, especially that which is beyond reach.
▸ noun:  teasing temptation

Similar:
tempting, inviting, titillating, juicy, daring, sensational, sensual, unteasing, daunting, itchy, more...

Opposite:
unappealing, uninviting, unenticing, unattractive

Types:
enticing, alluring, seductive, captivating, tempting, irresistible, provocative, bewitching, mesmerizing, more...

Adjectives:
most, little, own, few, such, first, cruel, gorgeous, mere

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Similar:
tempting, inviting, titillating, juicy, daring, sensational, sensual, unteasing, daunting, itchy, more...

Opposite:
unappealing, uninviting, unenticing, unattractive

Types:
enticing, alluring, seductive, captivating, tempting, irresistible, provocative, bewitching, mesmerizing, more...

Adjectives:
most, little, own, few, such, first, cruel, gorgeous, mere

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     burgundy,     amethyst, more...



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