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tan·ta·liz·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
tantalizing, tantalisingadjective
arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach
"a tantalizing taste of success"
Synonyms:
tempting, tantalisingAntonyms:
uninvitingtantalizing, tantalising, temptingadjective
very pleasantly inviting
"a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"
Synonyms:
tempting, alluring, tantalising, enticing, beguilingAntonyms:
uninviting
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#23055 | tempting | |
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#40081 | alluring | |
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#79788 | beguiling | |
#114111 | tantalising |
How to use tantalizing in a sentence?
There's a tantalizing possibility that people were here thousands of years earlier than we thought.
Every time we look at Jupiter, we get tantalizing hints that something really exciting is going on, this time is no exception.
We're beginning to see this tantalizing correlation between methane and oxygen for a good part of the Mars year, i think there's something to it. I just don't have the answers yet. Nobody does.
Two points here : first, while it’s an intuitively appealing finding, it is statistically rather weak, second, good adherence is hard to achieve with current therapeutic options for PAP. If a new, very well-tolerated mode of PAP therapy is identified, it would be really helpful to do a large outcome trial to try and confirm this tantalizing observation.
There's nothing more tantalizing than looking at a flickering a film projected on a wall, trying to find details in the grainy shadows and digging through secret locked files and looking for evidence, looking for some nugget of information that's never been revealed before.
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