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titillating

titillating is the present participle and gerund of titillate.

Adjective

titillating (comparative more titillating, superlative most titillating)

  1. Pleasantly and sensually exciting.
  2. Arousing.

Meaning of titillate

Verb

titillate (third-person singular simple present titillates, present participle titillating, simple past and past participle titillated)

  1. To stimulate or excite sensually.
    • The dancer titillated her audience with gyrations and suggestive movements.

Forms of titillating

comparativemore titillating
superlativemost titillating

Words formed from titillating

Questions about titillating

What does titillating mean?
Titillating means pleasantly and sensually exciting.
What is titillating the present participle and gerund of?
Titillating is the present participle and gerund of titillate.
What part of speech is titillating?
Titillating is an adjective.

Words near titillating in the dictionary

  1. titillate
  2. titillated
  3. titillater
  4. titillaters
  5. titillates
  6. titillating
  7. titillatingly
  8. titillation
  9. titillations
  10. titillative
  11. titillator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: titillating (page history and authors); titillate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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