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

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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

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