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Tantalizing vs Mocking - What's the difference?

tantalizing | mocking |

As adjectives the difference between tantalizing and mocking

is that tantalizing is teasing; tempting, but beyond reach while mocking is derisive or contemptuous.

As verbs the difference between tantalizing and mocking

is that tantalizing is while mocking is .

As a noun mocking is

action of the verb to mock .

tantalizing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
  • * 1851 — , Ch. 133
  • *:...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.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • mocking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • action of the verb to mock
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • derisive or contemptuous
  • teasing or taunting
  • Derived terms

    * mockingbird * mocking thrush * mocking wren