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tantilizing

tantilizing is the obsolete spelling of tantalizing.

Meaning of tantalizing

Adjective

tantalizing (comparative more tantalizing, superlative most tantalizing)

  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.1851, Herman Melville, chapter 133, in Moby Dick

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Forms of tantilizing

comparativemore tantilizing
superlativemost tantilizing

Questions about tantilizing

What is tantilizing the obsolete spelling of?
Tantilizing is the obsolete spelling of tantalizing.

Words near tantilizing in the dictionary

  1. tanterums
  2. tantes
  3. tanteuxenite-(Y)
  4. tantie
  5. tanties
  6. tantilizing
  7. Tantillo
  8. Tantillos
  9. tantipartite
  10. tantite
  11. tantivied

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