Word familynountantalismtantalizationtantalizertantalizingverbtantalizeadverbtantalizingly
tan·ta·liz·ing (also tantalising British English) /ˈtæntəl-aɪzɪŋ/adjectiveadj
WANTmaking you feel a desire to have or do something 逗引人的,撩拨人的SYN tempting
the tantalizing smell of fried bacon
诱人的煎熏猪肉的味道
—tantalizinglyadverbadv
She was tantalizingly out of reach.
她可望而不可即,撩人心怀。
Examples from the Corpus
tantalizing• And animal skullfossils sometimes yieldtantalizingevidence of transitionalmetabolicnatures.• She saw tantalizinggatherings round the boldrectangle of the diningtable.• There are tantalizinghints in the archaeological record that the Minoans may have written longer, non-bureaucratic texts on parchment.• Herbert's notes give only tantalizing hints of what happened to the other Jacobson children.• She knew she would not be able to sleep with so much tantalizing information spinning in her mind.• The tantalizingsmell of barbecue was in the air.• It was the most tantalizing smell.• Through the fifteenth-century wooden door there is little to detain the visitor, just a few tantalizingtraces of eleventh-century frescoes.